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    The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane on which...
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  • Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family...
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    the size and shape of grains can impact angle of repose significantly. As the roundness of materials increases, the angle of repose decreases since there...
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  • Wallace Stegner (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    West). Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly...
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    exerted over a greater distance. The angle of friction, also sometimes called the angle of repose, is the maximum angle at which a load can rest motionless...
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    until the slope angle reaches the critical angle of repose (that is, the steepest angle the sand can maintain, where it is on the verge of collapse from...
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    until the angle of repose is reached. At this point, the crest of granular material has grown too large and will be overcome by the force of the moving...
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    Mary Hallock Foote (category Place of death missing)
    novel Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize, 1972) is based directly upon Mary Hallock Foote's extensive personal correspondence. Stegner used the outline of her...
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  • occurs Critical angle of attack, in aerodynamics; the angle of attack which produces the maximum lift coefficient Critical angle of repose, in engineering;...
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    Friction (redirect from Angle of friction)
    Bernard Forest de Bélidor and Leonhard Euler (1750), who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static...
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  • Angle of parallelism Angle of repose Angle of view Angle Man Angles (disambiguation) Angel (disambiguation) Bloody Angle (disambiguation) Team Angle (disambiguation)...
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    outer slope angle is ultimately determined by the age of the subducting slab. The inner slope angle is determined by the angle of repose of the overriding...
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  • electrostatic activity hygroscopy bulk density angle of repose presence of glidants oxidation rate (of a metallic powder) humidity ISO 4490:2018 norm...
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    Scree (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    corresponds to the angle of repose of the mean debris particle size. Scree slopes are often assumed to be close to the angle of repose. This is the slope...
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    (particle mobility), angle of repose, abrasiveness and corrosivity, among others. Bulk material handling systems are typically composed of stationary machinery...
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  • density of a basin. In this sense, "unstable" is not used in the sense of the gradient of the hillslope being greater than the angle of repose and therefore...
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    by the ejection of sand onto a surface from a central point. The sand builds up as a cone with slopes at the sand's angle of repose. A crater is commonly...
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    extraction of water (drilled water well and tube well), other liquids (such as petroleum), or gases (such as natural gas). It may also be part of a geotechnical...
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  • mysteries of friendship, and it extends Stegner's distinguished body of work that had already earned him a Pulitzer Prize (for 1971's Angle of Repose) and...
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    Powder (category Granularity of materials)
    stress and therefore it cannot reside at a tilted angle without flowing (that is, it has zero angle of repose.) A powder on the other hand is a solid, not...
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  • on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional, fragmentary look at a secretive financier and his wife. The book is composed of four fictional...
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    Granular material (category Granularity of materials)
    of piles of sand and found empirically two critical angles: the maximal stable angle θ m {\displaystyle \theta _{m}} and the minimum angle of repose θ...
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    it accumulates up to the angle of repose of the sand, which is about 35 degrees. When the slip face exceeds the angle of repose, the sand avalanches, which...
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  • measurement systems. Flow table test Plasticity (physics) Superplasticizer Angle of repose Consistometer Gambhir, M. L. (2004). Concrete technology. Tata McGraw-Hill...
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    moisture weakens internal shear. Capillary action can also decrease the angle of repose of the bank to less than the existing bank slope. This oversteepens the...
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    additional reworking or effort. This is known as the angle of repose, and a prime example is the surface of sand dunes. Similarly, sediments may drape over...
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  • "Angles of Repose No. 1" – 4:44 "Angles of Repose No. 2" – 7:39 "Angles of Repose No. 3" (Joe Maneri) – 3:28 "Angles of Repose No. 4" – 10:10 "Angles of...
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    controls the volume of material flow based on the material's inherent angle of repose. The speed of rotation and the positioning of the articulable gate...
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    steeper down-current slope. The down-current slope is the angle of repose, which depends on the shape of the sediment. These commonly form in fluvial and aeolian...
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    of sand on the downwind side of an obstruction, such as a boulder or an isolated patch of vegetation. Here the sand builds up to the angle of repose (the...
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