Fracture, friction and granular simulation

This thesis contains three separate yet closely related topics: fracture, friction and simulation of mechanical response of a confined granular medium. The first two are experimental investigations and the last one is a numerical study. In the fracture part, I will describe how to break a piece of s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Zhiping, 1979-
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/10648