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Using the porosity and average number of contacts to characterize a bed of randomly packed particles, the numbers of contacts and near neighbours can be predicted by a set of statistical equations.
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BERESFORD, R. Statistical Geometry of Random Heaps of Equal Hard Spheres. Nature 224, 550–553 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224550a0
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