Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:06:53 BST CiteULike: dchens Edwards http://www.citeulike.org/user/dchen/author/Edwards CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/dchen/article/2730035 <i>Physical Review Letters, Vol. 82, No. 26. (28 June 1999), 5397.</i> Statistical Mechanics of Stress Transmission in Disordered Granular Arrays SF Edwards DV Grinev doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5397 Physical Review Letters, Vol. 82, No. 26. (28 June 1999), 5397. 2008-04-28T13:46:02-00:00 1999 Physical Review Letters 82 26 5397 American Physical Society force grains theory http://www.citeulike.org/user/dchen/article/2722865 <i>Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 327, No. 3-4. (15 September 2003), pp. 201-212.</i><br /><br />The micromechanics of a variety of systems experiencing a structural arrest due to their high density could be unified by a thermodynamic framework governing their approach to [`]jammed' configurations. The mechanism of supporting an applied stress through the microstructure of these highly packed materials is important in inferring the features responsible for the inhomo- geneous stress transmission and testing the universality for all jammed matter. In this paper, we present a novel method for measuring the force distribution within the bulk of a compressed emulsion system using confocal microscopy and explain our results with a simple theoretical model and computer simulations. We obtain an exponential distribution at large forces and a small peak at small forces, in agreement with previous experimental and simulation data for other particulate systems. Measuring the distribution of interdroplet forces in a compressed emulsion system Jasna Brujic Edwards Ian Hopkinson Hernán Makse doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00477-1 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 327, No. 3-4. (15 September 2003), pp. 201-212. 2008-04-27T00:12:13-00:00 2003 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 327 3-4 201 212 emulsion force technique