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Record W4414414025 · doi:10.1016/j.powtec.2025.121652

Vibration-induced dynamics of granular materials in the vibro-compaction of carbon anodes

2025· article· en· W4414414025 on OpenAlex
Amir Kafaei, Soheil Akbari, Simon Laliberté-Riverin, Louis Gosselin, Houshang Alamdari, Seyed Mohammad Taghavi

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Bibliographic record

VenuePowder Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGeotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversité Laval
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Research ChairsCanada Foundation for InnovationAlcoa
KeywordsAnodeGranular materialCarbon fibersDynamics (music)Molecular dynamics

Abstract

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Vibro-compaction is a key stage in carbon anode production for aluminum manufacturing, where vertical vibration is used to rearrange particles, increase density, and enhance homogeneity. To simulate this process, we experimentally investigate the flow dynamics of representative dry and wet granular materials in a transparent container subjected to vertical vibration. Mixtures of calcined petroleum coke particles and glycerin simulate the behavior of anode paste. Using ultra-high-speed imaging, we analyze the effects of particle size, concentration, and vibration amplitude on flowability, characterized by bulk average height, angle of repose, frequency ratio, and phase lag. Our findings reveal a non-monotonic effect of particle concentration on the average height and angle of repose, with a peak at 85% concentration. In addition, increasing particle concentration decreases energy transfer efficiency between the vibration table and the material, resulting in complex subharmonic responses with significant deviations from sinusoidal behavior, particularly at higher vibration amplitudes. These subharmonic responses are visualized as so-called multi-loop Lissajous patterns, which describe the motion of the bulk material relative to the vibration table. Our findings enhance understanding of vibro-compaction and have implications for other vibration-based industrial processes, including pharmaceuticals, food processing, sediment transport, and powder metallurgy.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.298

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.199 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it