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Research article
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14 Apr 2014
Research article |
| 14 Apr 2014
Force chain and contact cycle evolution in a dense granular material under shallow penetration
A. Tordesillas
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
C. A. H. Steer
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
D. M. Walker
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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