Mechanics of Granular Media

This monograph provides a broad coverage of phenomena of deformation and machining of granular media. Granular matter consists of macroscopic particles of various sizes, shapes, and surface properties leading to a typical behavior which is, on one hand, similar to fluids since they take the form of their repository and, on the other hand, similar to solids under deformation. This book analyses this typical behavior of granular media for soils, rocks and stones, metals and various synthetic materials. It presents a theoretical description, applications and the understanding of the basic phenomena characteristic of granular matter. Various mixing and intriguing pattern-formation processes in granular materials are presented by means of illustrative and original experiments and a concise theoretical development.

Inhalt
Theoretical Substantiation of Experimental Methods to Study Granular Materials.- Dilatancy and Plasticity of Granular Materials under Simple Shear.- Complex Loading with the Continuous Rotation of the Strain Tensor Axes.- Localization of Strains and Processes of Self-Organization in Granular Materials.- Mathematical Models of Deformation of Granular Materials.- Boundary Value Problems.- Some Problems of Granular (Powder) Material Treatment.- Practicality of the Results in the Mechanics-Related Fields.