The physics of sand castles: maximum angle of stability in wet and dry granular media

We demonstrate that stability criteria can be used to calculate the maximum angle of stability, θm, of a granular medium composed of spherical particles in three dimensions and circular discs in two dimensions. We apply the results to wet granular material by calculating the dependence of θm on the liquid content of the material. The results are in good agreement with our experimental data.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Barabási, Albert-László ; Albert, Réka ; Schiffer, Peter
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 266.1999, 1, p. 366-371
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Sand castles \| Granular medium \| Maximum angle

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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