Shielding radiation from both x-rays and gamma-rays is important for personnel in medical fields e.g. interventional radiology, nuclear power stations, and other inspection facilities where radiation is involved. Lead is known for its effective shielding property against these high energy radiations, however heaviness and toxicity are its main drawback. In this study effectiveness of non-lead p...

We are concerned here with the effect of added filler particles on the linear and non-linear rheological properties of viscoelastic systems. Whilst the addition of spherical or near-spherical filler particles will almost always increase the level of both the linear and the non-linear viscometric properties (so leading to increases in pressure drops, etc.), we usually find a decrease in the leve...

Finding the optimal random packing of non-spherical particles is an open problem with great significance in a broad range of scientific and engineering fields. So far, this search has been performed only empirically on a case-by-case basis, in particular, for shapes like dimers, spherocylinders and ellipsoids of revolution. Here we present a mean-field formalism to estimate the packing density ...