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A method for calculating the loose packing structure of polydisperse spherical particles with a predetermined size distribution function is proposed. The coordinates of the particle centers in the loose layer are determined as the result of random fall of single spheres on a substrate under the action of gravity, assuming the inelastic collision of the spheres and considering the force of their adhesive interaction, and also assuming that the motion of one sphere on the surface of the other is pure slip. Numerical simulation is used to obtain the pattern of arrangement of polydisperse spherical particles in the loose powder layer, whose porosity depends on the particle size distribution function. The results are compared with experimental data.
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Original Russian Text © O.B. Kovalev, I.O. Kovaleva.
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 184–192, July–August, 2014.
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Kovalev, O.B., Kovaleva, I.O. Modeling of the random packing of a loose layer of polydisperse spherical particles. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 55, 709–717 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894414040178
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