EFCE Working Party on Mechanics of Particulate Solids

  
Welcome to the web page of the EFCE Working Party on the Mechanics of Particulate Solids. The main aim of the working party is the promotion of science, education and technology transfer in the subject area of bulk solids handling and transportation in the EFCE member countries. The working party promotes interaction between industry and academia to enable improvement of bulk solids handling science and technology.

The working party was founded in 1969. Since then it has run numerous technical projects mainly concerning the characterisation of bulk solids for flow. Its most prominent outcome being the SSTT ( Standard Shear Testing Technique for Particulate Solids Using the Jenike Shear Cell) . This document has become the basis of several standards, most notably those by ASTM on Jenike and Ring Shear Testing.

For most of its time the Working Party on the Mechanics of Particulate Solids has been led by Dr. Jan Novosad of Czechoslovakia (later Czech Republic). In the period 2001 - 2007 it was led by Dr. Hermann Feise, an industrial delegate from Germany. Today, it is headed by Prof. Massimo Poletto from Italy. The working party currently has 20 delegates from eleven European countries. 
 

 
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