Patent ID: 8315821
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a packing property and characteristic properties of a material having a particulate composition and processing data characteristic of the particulate composition to enable accomplishing at least one of a physical or chemical change of the composition, displaying the properties for use, printing out characteristics of the material for action using the particulate composition and storing the properties for future use of the characteristics of the particulate composition, comprising the steps of: obtaining data about characteristics of the particulate composition for the material; analyzing the data, using a computer system having a non-transitory computer readable medium, to obtain radius and position information for the particulate composition from the data; using the computer system for determining contact information from the radius and position information; and using the computer system for determining a packing property from the radius and position information and the contact information; using the computer system for determining characteristic properties of the particulate composition and to enable use of the determined characteristic properties to act on those properties to carry out processing of the particulate composition of the material to accomplish at least one of a physical or chemical change of the composition, displaying the properties for use of the material, printing out the characteristics of the material for user action on the material and storing the characteristic properties for future user application of the material having selected ones of the characteristic properties.