“…However, the relation between single particle properties and bulk compression behaviour is not yet well understood (Samimi, Hassanpour, & Ghadiri, 2005). Powder compression studies are widely reported in literature for compression of powders with very different physical properties such as metal powder (Gan, & Gu 2008;Sivasankaran, Sivaprasad, Narayanasamy, & Iyer, 2010), pharmaceutical (Michrafy, Ringenbacher, & Tchoreloff, 2002;Zhang, Seville, Adams, & Yap 2006;Yap, Adams, Seville, & Zhang 2008;Frenning, Nordström, & Alderborn 2009;Klevan, Nordström, Bauer-Brandl, & Alderborn 2009;Klevan, Nordström, Tho, & Alderborn 2010) and ceramic materials (Caligaris, Topolevsky, Maggi, & Brog, 1985, Djuri, Marinkovi-Neduin, Ranogajec, & Radeka, 1995Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan, RamaRao, & Venkadesan, 1997;Vogler, Lee, & Grady, 2007). In Figure 1 a general schematic of the micromechanics and deformation mechanisms that occurs during bulk compression are illustrated (Stasiak, Tomas, Molenda, Rusinek, & Mueller, 2010).…”