On the strength of sand
- 1 August 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Vol. 1 (1), 71-79
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1446788700025088
Abstract
An aggregate consisting of a large number of small, equal, hard spheres might be expected to behave like ordinary sand; in this article therefore an attempt is made to find the porperties that will be exhibited by this model, and in particular to find what stresses the sand will withstand without collapsing.Keywords
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