Packing of Ternary Mixtures of Nonspherical Particles

Abstract

An experimental investigation of the packing of some ternary mixtures of nonspherical particles has been conducted. The double extrapolation method is used to determine the packing density of a particle mixture in infinite space. The application of experimental design to particulate mixture problems is demonstrated. The results indicate that the similarity between the packing systems of spherical and nonspherical particles can be readily depicted in terms of specific volume variation.