The rheological beha®ior of a bed of packing material during its consolidation was in®estigated using an elastic-plastic model, the Frictional Material Model. This model takes into account the beha®ior of the packing material under compression stress, its consolidation, its internal friction, its friction against the column wall, and the depen-
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