On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Mike Spencer wrote: > > What's the correct engineering term for the angle, characteristic > of a given medium, at which this occurs and/or at which the heap > stabilizes? > Angle of repose. Angle of subsidence is a popular usage variant but doesn't appear in Wikipedia, and seems to be a conflation with terms from mining, "angle of draw" being a term used in describing surface subsidence resulting from collapsing mine caverns below.
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