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Deformation and Friction at the Microscale—From Model Experiments to Process Characterization

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One of the grand challenges in Particle Technology is how to characterize the contact mechanisms and contact forces between particles. The mechanics of particles across all length scales down to the nanoscale are highly relevant for many applications including adhesion, friction, powder flow, comminution and tribology. Particular interesting new fields are additive manufacturing and 3D printing which “promise” a revolution in industrial manufacturing based on powder technologies. Mechanical particle properties are also the key parameters in discrete element models (DEM) which have been developed during the last decades and gradually reach “predictive power”. In order to make DEM truly predictive, intrinsic material properties such as Young’s modulus, hardness, plastic deformation or fracture toughness of the particles must be known quantitatively. However, measured mechanical particle properties (and their distributions) are only known in a few rare cases.

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Peukert, W., Romeis, S. (2019). Deformation and Friction at the Microscale—From Model Experiments to Process Characterization. In: Antonyuk, S. (eds) Particles in Contact. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15899-6_13

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