The Product Fits the Bill - Successful Product Design

Recognizing the role of particle scale properties on bulk unconfined yield strength is key to successful product design. All other important properties are affected by the degree of cohesive strength in the bulk. The current state of modeling does not allow direct calculation of strength from particle scale properties alone; the particle system is too complex to allow this. Thus, the engineer must rely on some direct measurement of key properties and extrapolate system behavior from there. This paper discusses methodolgoy to measure key properties of pure components in a mixture and combine these properties in such a way as to predict the properties of any mixture containing the same components.