The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

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 …

Particle-based simulations of discontinuous shear thickening (DST) and shear jamming (SJ)
suspensions are used to study the role of stress-activated constraints, with an emphasis on …

Manipulating the super-assembly of polymeric building blocks still remains a great
challenge due to their thermodynamic instability. Here, we report on a type of three …

Simulations are used to study the steady shear rheology of dense suspensions of frictional
particles exhibiting discontinuous shear thickening and shear jamming, in which finite-range …

Dense suspensions of colloidal or granular particles can display pronounced non-
Newtonian behaviour, such as discontinuous shear thickening and shear jamming. The …

Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

We present a phenomenological model for granular suspension rheology in which particle
interactions enter as constraints to relative particle motion. By considering constraints that …

We perform numerical simulations of plane strain compression tests of Ottawa sand samples
inspired by previous micro computed tomography experiments. The numerical code used for …

The rheology of dense colloidal suspensions, which may undergo discontinuous shear
thickening or shear jamming, is particularly difficult to analyze with conventional rheometers …