Random Loose Packing of Binary Mixtures of Spheres
EPSTEIN, N.; YOUNG, M. J.
Журнал:
Nature
Дата:
1962
Аннотация:
THE attention which J. D. Bernal<sup>1</sup> has directed to the importance of geometrical models for representing the structure of liquids has elicited considerable recent interest in the packing of spheres<sup>2â 7</sup>. While previous investigations were often concerned with the dense random state<sup>8,9</sup>, some of the more recent work has been devoted to looser states<sup>3,4,6</sup>. Both Scott<sup>3</sup> and MacRae and Gray<sup>4</sup> obtained loose deposits of spheres by a rolling procedure, while Rutgers<sup>6</sup>, in common with Leva et al.<sup>10</sup> some years earlier, obtained a loose packing by dumping or pouring. Porosities thus reported, though significantly higher than those found in the dense random state, are nevertheless still lower than those obtained either by rapidly inverting a cylinder<sup>11</sup> or by gradually diminishing to zero the gas (or liquid) flow through a fluidized bed<sup>12,13</sup>. It is the latter porosities which correspond to those observed in both moving packed<sup>14</sup> and incipiently fluidized<sup>13</sup> beds.
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