Philipse, Albert P.; Verberkmoes, Alain - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 235 (1997) 1, pp. 186-193
A derivation is given for the caging density of a static, random thin-rod structure at which uncorrelated contacts on a rod on average form a cage which arrests sidewise translations. Some implications of this result for colloidal sediments, random packings and rod glasses are discussed.