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Space-filling bearings in three dimensions

R. Mahmoodi Baram, H. J. Herrmann, N. Rivier

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0312460

Abstract

We present the first space-filling bearing in three dimensions. It is shown that a packing which contains only loops with even number of spheres can be constructed in a self-similar way and that it can act as a three dimensional bearing in which spheres can rotate without slip and with negligible torsion friction.

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