Critical angle of a dry binary mixture of granular materials

Authors

  • Marko Arciaga ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Marissa Pastor ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Rene Batac ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Johnrob Bantang ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Christopher Monterola ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Contrary to prevalent ideas, both our experiments and theory point to the possible existence for bi-disperse granular mixtures of supra maximal critical angle θc, i.e. θc higher than the θc of individual components.

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Published

2007-10-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1: October 2007

Section

Brief Communications