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On the strength of sand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

B. C. Rennie
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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.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , August 1959 , pp. 71 - 79
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1959

References

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