Herrmann, H.J.; Astrøm, J.A.; Mahmoodi Baram, R. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 344 (2004) 3, pp. 516-522
High resistance concrete or hard ceramics needs extremely dense granular packings which can only be realised when the size distribution of grains follows a powerlaw. We discuss the perfectly dense limit, namely Apollonian packings in three dimensions and show in particular the existence of space...