Single particle crushing

What's single particle crushing?

In this work, experiments were carried out to see how a single spherical particle of a few centimetres in size would break down when compressed, and the physics of this was discussed and formulated.
In Japan, from the late 1960s to the 1980s, a number of studies were carried out and published.
（The work of Yashima, Saito, Kanda, Hashimoto, Hotta and others at Tohoku University's Institute of Mineral Processing and Smelting is well known.


You can read those papers for free in Open Access from the NII Scholarly Information Navigator (CiNii) provided by the National Institute of Informatics (NII). For example, you can read them from the following URL.
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/els/110000202769.pdf?id=ART0000575185&type=pdf&lang=jp&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1428306746&cp=/

Incidentally, the Tohoku University Research Institute of Mineral Processing and Metallurgy was established in 1941, and after several organizational changes it is now known as the Tohoku University Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials.