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Buckling force chains in dense granular assemblies: physical and numerical experiments

Antoinette Tordesillas Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jie Zhang Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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Robert Behringer Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
Pages 3-16 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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