One major cause of elastic wave attenuation in heterogeneous porous media is wave-
induced flow of the pore fluid between heterogeneities of various scales. It is believed that …

Amorphous materials as diverse as foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and granular
media can jam into a rigid, disordered state where they withstand finite shear stresses …

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 …

We present results on a series of two-dimensional atomistic computer simulations of
amorphous systems subjected to simple shear in the athermal, quasistatic limit. The …

In 1989, Sir Sam Edwards made the visionary proposition to treat jammed granular materials
using a volume ensemble of equiprobable jammed states in analogy to thermal equilibrium …

This paper reports the results of a series of resonant column tests on specimens where gas
hydrate has been formed in sands using an “excess water” technique. In these specimens …

An approximation scheme for model disordered solids is proposed that leads to the fully
analytical evaluation of the elastic constants under explicit account of the inhomogeneity …

We investigate the jamming transition in packings of emulsions and granular materials via
molecular dynamics simulations. The emulsion model is composed of frictionless droplets …

We poorly understand the properties of amorphous systems at small length scales, where a
continuous elastic description breaks down. This is apparent when one considers their …

The physical interactions of growing bacterial cells with each other and with their
surroundings significantly affect the structure and dynamics of biofilms. Here a 3D agent …