Random Loose Packing of Binary Mixtures of Spheres
Random Loose Packing of Binary Mixtures of Spheres
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DOI:
10.1038/196885a0
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发表时间:
1962-12
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
N. Epstein;M. Young
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作者:
N. Epstein;M. Young
THE attention which J. D. Bernal1has directed to the importance of geometrical models for representing the structure of liquids has elicited considerable recent interest in the packing of spheres2–7. While previous investigations were often concerned with the dense random state8,9, some of the more recent work has been devoted to looser states3,4,6. Both Scott3and MacRae and Gray4obtained loose deposits of spheres by a rolling procedure, while Rutgers6, in common with Levaet al.10some years earlier, obtained a loose packing by dumping or pouring. Porosities thus reported, though significantly higher than those found in the dense random state, are nevertheless still lower than those obtained either by rapidly inverting a cylinder11or by gradually diminishing to zero the gas (or liquid) flow through a fluidized bed12,13. It is the latter porosities which correspond to those observed in both moving packed14and incipiently fluidized13beds.