The pursuit of loosest packing

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Aste, Tomaso
Di Matteo, Tiziana
Delaney, Gary W.

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American Institute of Physics (AIP)

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We combine X-ray Computed Tomography data from real experimental samples with Discrete Element Method simulations to investigate the limiting packing fraction for the loosest mechanically-stable disordered packing. We establish a possible lower bound at packing fraction ̃ 53%.

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Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Micromechanis of Granular Media

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2037-12-31