Mechanics of Granular Media [Paperback]

This monograph covers phenomena of deformation and machining of granular media: macroscopic particles of different size, shape, and surface properties which typically exhibit behavior similar to fluids, as well as the behavior of solids under deformation. The book analyses the behavior of granular media in soils, rocks and stones, metals and various synthetic materials, presenting a theoretical description, applications and understanding of basic phenomena in granular matter.

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.

From the reviews:

The book is a translation from the Russian done by some other person than the author. The book has been written by an experimentalist. & The experimental data are very good. The book is recommended mainly for libraries. (N. Cristescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1126 (3), 2008)

This monograph provides a broad coverage of phenomena of deformation and machining of granular media. Granular matter consists of macroscopic particles of different size, shape, and surface properties leading to a typical behavior which is on the one hand side similar to fluids since they take the form of their repository and on the other side they show the behavior of 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 in granular ml��