Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

The arrangements of particles and forces in granular materials have a complex organization
on multiple spatial scales that range from local structures to mesoscale and system-wide …

Earth's surface is composed of a staggering diversity of particulate–fluid mixtures: dry to wet,
dilute to dense, colloidal to granular and attractive to repulsive particles. This material variety …

In the mechanics of granular materials, interparticle contacts play a major role. These have
been historically difficult to study experimentally, but the advent of x-ray microtomography …

Granular dynamics govern earthquakes, avalanches, and landslides and are of fundamental
importance in a variety of industries ranging from energy to pharmaceuticals to agriculture …

The paper deals with a quasi-static behaviour of cohesion-less granular material in active
earth pressure state. Photo-elastic model tests on a rigid wall, translating out of the granular …

Structural defects within amorphous packings of symmetric particles can be characterized
using a machine learning approach that incorporates structure functions of radial distances …

This work discusses an experimental technique for studying the mechanics of three-
dimensional (3D) granular solids. The approach combines 3D X-ray diffraction and X-ray …

The role of fixed degrees of freedom in soft or granular matter systems has broad
applicability and theoretical interest. Here we address questions of the geometrical role that …

We introduce a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging technique to study the geometry of shear
zones of soft, low-frictional and hard, frictional granular materials and their mixtures …