Abstract
As a means of access to the more complicated phenomena of wet pressing, we have observed and interpreted compression dewatering in an extensively simplified case. It appeared best to begin with a system characterised by a single spatial co-ordinate; a system containing synthetic fibres which would be non-swelling and nearly identical, filtration-formed into a uniform bed, and mechanically conditioned; a system for which one could expect to find stable and reproducible compressibility and permeability properties. It also appeared that we could construct a theory of the behaviour of such a system, and develop effective numerical procedures by which to obtain the predicted response to rapidly varying applied stress. Experiments and theory were to include conditions in which the increasing stress on the solid portion of the system would induce significant non-uniformity.
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