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Where does a cohesive granular heap break?

F Restagno1, L Bocquet, E Charlaix

  • 1Laboratoire de physique des solides, UMR CNRS 8502, Bat. 510, Campus universitaire, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France. restagno@lps.u-psud.fr

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|July 16, 2004
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