When soft spheres make porous media stiffer

ScienceDaily
Jun 22, 2023, 4:08 pm67 pts
Porous media such as concrete physically represent a spherical packing of different components -- in this case cement, rock and water. The mechanical properties of such mixtures are still difficult to calculate due to their discretized nature. A team has now been able to investigate an unexpected property of…

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