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Stress Correlations and Weight Distributions in Granular Packs

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Physics of Dry Granular Media

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Using a simple microscopic model of granular assemblies, we study how the presence of spatial correlations in stress patterns affects the distribution function of contact forces.

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Nicodemi, M. (1998). Stress Correlations and Weight Distributions in Granular Packs. In: Herrmann, H.J., Hovi, JP., Luding, S. (eds) Physics of Dry Granular Media. NATO ASI Series, vol 350. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2653-5_6

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