Platonic Packing
- cafeIKE
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An interesting paper on packing volume for Platonic shapes.
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- another_jim
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I was surprised how little the random packing varies. However, these are all regular solids, with faces equidistant from the center; I wonder if this lack of variation would also hold for more irregular particles.
Jim Schulman
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Dont make me break out the graphs of powder packing density vs uniaxial pressure!