Granular Materials

Presented by world renowned researchers this book will be welcomed by scientists and engineers working across a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines.

Granular materials play an important role in many industries. Continuous ingenuity and advancement in these industries necessitates the ability to predict the fundamental behaviour of granular materials under different working environments. With contributions from international experts in the field Granular Materials; Fundamentals and Applications details recent advances made in theoretical computational and experimental approaches in understanding the behaviour of granular materials including industrial applications. Topics covered include: * key features of granular plasticity * high temperature particle interactions * influence of polymers on particulate dispersion stability: scanning probe microscopy investigations * in-process measurement of particulate systems Presented by world renowned researchers this book will be welcomed by scientists and engineers working across a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines.

Fundamentals: Rates of Stress in Dense Unbonded Frictional Materials During Slow Loading; Snapshots on Some Granular States of Matter: Billiard, Gas, Clustering, Liquid, Plastic, Solid; Constitutive Modelling of Flowering Granular Materials: A Continuum Approach; High Temperature Particle Interactions; Critical State Behaviour of Granular Materials Using Three Dimensional Discrete Element Modelling; Key Features of Granular Plasticity; Influence of Polymers on Particulate Dispersion Stability: Scanning Probe Microscopy Investigations;Applications: Applications of Atomic Force Microscopy to Granular Materials: Interparticle Forces in Air; In-Process Measurement of Particulate Systems; Fluidization of Fine Powders; The Kinetics of High-Shear Granulation; Dynamics of Particles in a Rotary Kiln; Granular Motion in the Transverse Plane of Rotating Drums; Subject Index