Download or read book Granular and Complex Materials written by Tomaso Aste and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science of complex materials continues to engage researchers from a vast range of disciplines, including physics, mathematics, computational science, and virtually all domains of engineering.This volume presents a unique multidisciplinary panorama of the current research in complex materials. The contributions explore an array of problems reflecting recent developments in four main areas: characterization and modeling of disordered packings, micromechanics and continuum theory; discrete element method; statistical mechanics. The common theme is the quest to unravel the connection between the microscopic and macroscopic properties of complex materials.