This book outlines the science underlying the prediction of stress and velocity distributions in granular materials.
1. Introduction; 2. The analysis of stress and strain rate; 3. The ideal Coulomb material; 4. Coulomb's method of wedges; 5. The method of differential slices; 6. Determination of physical properties; 7. Exact stress analysis; 8. Velocity distributions; 9. The conical yield function; 10. The prediction of mass flow rate; Problems; Appendices; Index.