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 …

Granular materials consist of macroscopic grains, interacting via contact forces, and
unaffected by thermal fluctuations. They are one of a class systems that undergo jamming, ie …

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 …

A broad class of disordered materials including foams, glassy molecular systems, colloids
and granular materials can form jammed states. A jammed system can resist small stresses …

This paper presents a micro-mechanical study on the characteristics of shear-induced
anisotropy in granular media. Based on three-dimensional Discrete Element Method (DEM) …

Thank you for opening the third edition of this monograph. The first edition [202] was
published in 1996 in the Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series (vol. 220) …

We study the plane shear flow of a dense assembly of dissipative disks using discrete
simulation and prescribing the pressure and the shear rate. Those shear states are steady …

We consider materials whose mechanical integrity is the result of a jamming process. We
argue that such media are generically “fragile,” unable to support certain types of …

Predicting the morphodynamics of sedimentary landscapes due to fluvial and aeolian flows
requires answering the following questions: Is the flow strong enough to initiate sediment …

This report explores the effects of particle shape and content of fines on the shear behavior
of sand-fines mixtures using a two-dimensional discrete element method. The contributions …