NORMALIZED DENSITY RATIO - A NEW CHARACTERISTIC OF SPHERE PACKINGS
A. F. Revuzhenko, A. P. Bobryakov, V. P. Kosykh
Chinakal Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: Porosity, sphere packing, packing density, simple shear, dilatancy
Abstract
The density ratio is normalized with respect to the theoretical maximum density ratio of a sphere packing, which is 0.7405. The experimental data show that the density ratio of a packing of sized glass balls changes during cyclical shearing .
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