As destructive power of firearms raises over the years, ballistic armors are in continuous
need of enhancement. For soft armors, this improvement is invariably related to the increase …

Impact-stiffening materials that undergo a strain rate-induced soft-to-rigid transition hold
great promise as soft armors in the protection of the human body and equipment. However …

We study the jamming phase diagram of sheared granular material using a novel Couette
shear setup with a multiring bottom. The setup uses small basal friction forces to apply a …

Yielding behavior is well known in attractive colloidal suspensions. Adhesive non-Brownian
suspensions, in which the interparticle bonds are due to finite-size contacts, also show …

Almost all of landslides, slope failures on the land and the submarine landslides are related
to the granular mechanics. The force distribution in the granular materials before failure is …

Control of gas transport through porous media is desired in multifarious processes such as
chemical reactions, interface absorption, and medical treatment. Liquid gating technology …

Tuff rock is highly heterogeneous due to volcanic activity, hydrothermal alteration, and
weathering. It is difficult to explain the deterioration mechanisms of the weathered rocks …

ZnO rice like nonarchitects are grafted on the graphene carbon core via a rapid microwave
synthesis route. The prepared grafted systems are characterized via XRD, SEM, RAMAN …

The geological disasters caused by avalanche, large scale deformation, and flow slide of the
geo-granular materials have brought massive destruction and potential threats to national …

Jamming can occur in frictional granular materials undergoing shear at a fixed packing
fraction, ϕ ϕ, within a range below the isotropic jamming point, with the amount of strain …