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Books : Sands, Powders, and Grains: An Introduction to the Physics of Granular Materials (Partially Ordered Systems)In association with Amazon.comby: Jacques Duran  List Price: $129.00 Amazon.com's Price: $102.77 You Save: $26.23 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 620.43 EAN: 9780387986562 ISBN: 0387986561 Label: Springer Manufacturer: Springer Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 232 Publication Date: November 12, 1999 Publisher: Springer Studio: Springer Sales Rank: 1218848 Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This book is an introduction to the physical principles underlying the behavior of materials consisting of grains. Such materials can be found in an enormous variety of places, ranging from the powders used to make vitamin pills to the rings of Saturn, from beaches to grain elevators, and from pottery clay to interstellar dust. Granular materials have interested physicists from Coulomb and Faraday to Reynolds and Rayleigh, but only recently have mathematical and experimental methods been developed to analyze their properties in detail. This text develops the fundamental physics of the behavior of granular materials. It covers the basic properties of flow, friction, and fluidization of uniform granular materials; discusses mixing and segregation of heterogeneous materials (the famous "brazil-nut problem"); and concludes with an introduction to numerical models. The presentation begins with simple experiments and uses their results to build concepts and theorems about materials whose behavior is often quite counter-intuitive; it aims to present in a unified way the background needed to understand current work in the field. Developed for students at the University of Paris, the text will be suitable for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students; it should also be of interest to researchers and engineers just entering the field. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The granular book for physicistsThis is the best book around on the general physics of granular systems. A solid addition to the shelf. Rating: - It's Just Not About Sands of TimeIt is interesting that even though the behavior of granular materials (sands, powders, grains) have been studied for more than 2000 years, only recently have technologists addressed the question of determining the fundamental characteristics of granular materials behavior. Two books on the physics of granular materials have been issued by Springer-Verlag in the last year or so. I have reviewed the Ristow book. And now I consider the Duran book. Ristow is a leading researcher in Germany. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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