Unifying concepts in granular media and glasses /

Other Authors: Coniglio, Antonio,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I) Granular media
  • The Properties of Jamming at Zero Temperature
  • A Basis for the Statistical Mechanics of Granular Systems
  • A Possible Experimental Test of the Thermodynamic Approach to Granular Media
  • Memory and Kovacs Effects in the Parking-lot Model: An Approximate Statistical-mechanical Treatment
  • Statistical Mechanics of Jamming and Segregation in Granular Media
  • Granular Compaction
  • Experiments in Randomly Agitated Granular Assemblies Close to the Jamming Transition
  • An Oscillator in the Granular Matter
  • Segregation Phases in a Vibrated Binary Granular Layer
  • Shaken, not Stirred: why Gravel Packs Better than Bricks
  • Part II) Thermal glassy systems
  • On Pre-asymptotic Aging in Finite Dimensional Spin Glasses
  • Stimulated and Spontaneous Relaxation in Glassy Systems
  • Heterogeneities in the Dynamics of Supercooled Water
  • Glass States in Dense Attractive Micellar Systems
  • Short-ranged Attractive Colloids: What is the Gel State?
  • Structural Arrest in Chemical and Colloidal Gels
  • Schematic Mode Coupling Theories for Shear Thinning, Shear Thickening, and Jamming
  • Workshop Participants List.