Granular physics has made considerable progress during the past decades in the
understanding of static and dynamic properties of large ensembles of interacting …

Granular flows are omnipresent in nature and industrial processes, but their rheological
properties such as apparent friction and packing fraction are still elusive when inertial …

We present a systematic numerical investigation of the shear strength and structure of
granular packings composed of irregular polyhedral particles. The angularity of the particles …

Particle shape has been regarded as a key factor affecting mechanical behaviors of granular
assemblies. The present work proposes a shape descriptor, ie, asphericity, to isolate the …

By means of extensive contact dynamics simulations, we analyze the combined effects of
polydispersity both in particle size and in particle shape, defined as the degree of shape …

We use three-dimensional contact dynamics simulations to analyze the rheology of
polydisperse packings of spherical particles subjected to simple shear. The macroscopic …

A computational framework is presented for high-fidelity virtual (in silico) experiments on
granular materials. By building on i) accurate mathematical representation of particle …

We present a detailed analysis of the morphology of granular systems composed of
frictionless pentagonal particles by varying systematically both the size span and particle …

Many structural properties of conventional passive materials are known to arise from the
symmetries of their microscopic constituents. By contrast, it is largely unclear how the …

By means of extensive contact dynamics simulations, we analyzed the effect of particle size
distribution (PSD) on the strength and microstructure of sheared granular materials …