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Vibratory Compaction: II, Compaction of Angular Shapes
Author(s) -
AYER J. E.,
SOPPET F. E.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1966.tb13235.x
Subject(s) - compaction , materials science , shape factor , atomic packing factor , particle (ecology) , particle size , composite material , sphere packing , mechanics , geometry , physics , mathematics , geology , nuclear magnetic resonance , engineering , chemical engineering , oceanography
Experiments were conducted on compaction of steel grit in elongated cylindrical containers. The packing efficiency of angular shapes is a function of particle shape and absolute size. The derived relation between packing efficiency and particle size is similar to that for spherical systems with the addition of a shape factor. The equations allow calculation of packing fractions of multicomponent systems in terms of diameter ratios only. Application of the findings was made by loading sixteen nuclear fuel specimens by vibratory compaction.