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Non-linearity and breakdown in soft condensed matter : proceedings of a workshop held at Calcutta, India, 1-9 December 1993

Title: Non-linearity and breakdown in soft condensed matter : proceedings of a workshop held at Calcutta, India, 1-9 December 1993 / K.K. Bardhan, B.K. Chakrabarti, A. Hansen (Eds.).
Publication: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1994.

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340 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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Lecture notes in physics ; 437

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Lecture notes in physics ; 437.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / E. Guyon -- 1. Decompaction, Fluidisation and Segregation in a 2D Sandpile / J. Duran, T. Mazozi, J. Rajchenbach and E. Clement -- 2. Granular Flow: Some Experimental Results / D. Bideau, F. X. Riguidel, A. Hansen, G. Ristow, X. I. Wu, K. J. Maloy and M. Ammi -- 3. Density Waves in Granular Flow / H. J. Herrmann, E. Flekkoy, K. Nagel, G. Peng and G. Ristow -- 4. Height Fluctuations and Pressure Distribution in a Model of Random Close Packing of Mono-size Discs / M. K. Hari Menon -- 5. Statics and Dynamics of Sandpiles: Some Phenomenological Ideas / J. P. Bonchand -- 6. Some Physical Properties of the Burridge-Knopoff Model / J. P. Vilotte, J. Schmittbuhl and S. Roux -- 7. Jerky Flow, Stick-Slip in Geological Materials and Earthquake Models / G. Ananthakrishna and H. Ramachandran -- 8. Dynamics and Structure of Displacement Fronts in Two-Dimensional Porous Media / K. J. Maloy, L. Furuberg, E. Hinrichsen, J. Feder and T. Jossang.
9. Heterogeneous Porous Media: Fronts and Noise / M. Chaouche, N. Rakotomalala, D. Salin, B. Xu and Y. C. Yortsos -- 10. Pattern Formation in Particulate Complex Fluids: A Guided Tour / H. Van Damme, E. Lemaire, Y. Ould Mohamed Abdelhaye, A. Mourchid and P. Levitz -- 11. Solvable Models of Material Breakdown / P. L. Leath and P. M. Duxbury -- 12. Fracture and Other Breakdown Phenomena in Disordered Solids / B. K. Chakrabarti -- 13. Spring-Network and Finite-Element Models for Elasticity and Fracture / A. Jagota and S. J. Bennison -- 14. Ginzburg-Landau Form Description for Steps on Creep Curves / M. Bekele and G. Ananthakrishna -- 15. Laboratory Simulation of Dielectric Breakdown / L. Benguigui and P. Ron -- 16. Fracture Roughness and Physical Implications / S. Roux -- 17. Rock Fracturing by Gas Loading for Well Stimulation / L. Petitjean and B. Couet -- 18. Physics of Random Nonlinear Composites / P. M. Hui.
19. Scaling Behavior of Electric Response in a Non-linear Composite / A. K. Sen and A. K. Gupta -- 20. Non-linear Effects at the Critical Supercurrent in Josephson Junction Arrays / P. L. Leath and Y. Cai -- 21. Field-Induced Transport in Random Media / M. Barma and R. Ramaswamy -- 22. Percolation and Tunneling in the Quantum Hall Effect / A. Hansen.

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3540586520

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94040085

OCLC

ocm31433762

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Columbia University Libraries