Aggregation Fundamentals Strength of Agglomerates

Geometric Arrangement, Porosity, and Coordination Number of Packings of Monosized Particles 

Packings of mono-sized spherical particles (a) cubic, (b) and (c) orthorhombic, (d) tetragonal-spheroidal, (e) rhombohedral (pyramidal), (f) rhombohedral (hexagonal). 

A generic relationship to describe the tensile strength of agglomerates a, held together by binding mechanisms acting at the coordination points is 

Substituting Equation 5.1 into Equation 5.2, the following relation is obtained  

A further simplification results because many binding mechanisms are a function of the representative particle size x and thus 

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