Granular materials are ubiquitous in the world around us. They have properties that are
different from those commonly associated with either solids, liquids, or gases. In this review …

Granular materials, like sand, powder or grains present intriguing phenomena. Vibration and
shearing can lead to convective motion and segregation. A variation of stress may cause …

Sand, rice, sugar, snow, cement... Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still
challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the …

This introductory text develops the fundamental physics of the behavior of granular
materials. It covers the basic properties of flow, friction, and fluidization of uniform granular …

The contacts between cohesive, frictional particles with sizes in the range 0.1–10 μm are the
subject of this study. Discrete element model (DEM) simulations rely on realistic contact …

We study the scheme of formal arcs on a singular algebraic variety and its images under
truncations. We prove a rationality result for the Poincare series of these images which is an …

The contact dynamics (CD) method is presented as a discrete element method for the
simulation of nonsmooth granular dynamics at the scale of particle rearrangements where …

This paper presents a computational study on the interactive evolution of particle shape and
particle breakage for granular material under confined compression. A novel multiscale …

We have measured the spectrum of velocity fluctuations in a granular system confined to a
vertical plane and driven into a homogeneous, steady state by strong vertical vibration. The …

An experimental study of the behavior of one bead bouncing repeatedly off a static flat
horizontal surface is presented. We observe that the number of bounces made by the bead …