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Nature Physics 1, 21 - 22 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nphys129
Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Materials physics
Granular physics: A bridge to sandpile stability
Peter Schiffer1
- Peter Schiffer is in the Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. e-mail: schiffer@phys.psu.edu
Abstract
Wet sand is more stable than dry sand, but exactly how this greater stability arises has been the subject of considerable discussion. Conflicting ideas are now unified by a hybrid theory that considers both surface and bulk properties of a sandpile.
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