This book contains accounts of state-of-the art approaches to the physics of granular matter, from a widely interdisciplinary and international set of experts i

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Provides the state-of-the-art of the physics of granular media for graduate students and researchers in physics, applied mathematics and engineering.

"Granular Gases" are diluted many-particle systems in which the mean free path of the particles is much larger than the typical particle size, and where particl

This volume presents the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Vibration Problems, held in Istanbul, Turkey, September 5-9, 2005. The main obje