A state-of-the-art review of experimental and computational studies of granular materials: Properties, advances, challenges, and future directions

P Tahmasebi - Progress in Materials Science, 2023‏ - Elsevier
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 …

The physics of jamming for granular materials: a review

RP Behringer, B Chakraborty - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

A phase diagram for jammed matter

C Song, P Wang, HA Makse - Nature, 2008‏ - nature.com
The problem of finding the most efficient way to pack spheres has a long history, dating back
to the crystalline arrays conjectured by Kepler and the random geometries explored by …

Patterns and collective behavior in granular media: Theoretical concepts

IS Aranson, LS Tsimring - Reviews of modern physics, 2006‏ - APS
Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

Mean-field theory of hard sphere glasses and jamming

G Parisi, F Zamponi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010‏ - APS
Hard spheres are ubiquitous in condensed matter: they have been used as models for
liquids, crystals, colloidal systems, granular systems, and powders. Packings of hard …

Edwards statistical mechanics for jammed granular matter

A Baule, F Morone, HJ Herrmann, HA Makse - Reviews of modern physics, 2018‏ - APS
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 …

Jamming of frictional spheres and random loose packing

LE Silbert - Soft Matter, 2010‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The role of the friction coefficient, μ, on the jamming properties of disordered, particle
packings is studied using computer simulations. Compressed, soft-sphere packings are …

Sensitive dependence of the motion of a legged robot on granular media

C Li, PB Umbanhowar, H Komsuoglu… - Proceedings of the …, 2009‏ - pnas.org
Legged locomotion on flowing ground (eg, granular media) is unlike locomotion on hard
ground because feet experience both solid-and fluid-like forces during surface penetration …

[ספר][B] Granular gaseous flows

V Garzó, V Garzó, PACKER. - 2019‏ - Springer
Granular materials are ubiquitous in nature and are also employed in many industrial
settings such as those involving chemical processes, pharmaceutical products, mining, and …

Onset of mechanical stability in random packings of frictional spheres

M Jerkins, M Schröter, HL Swinney, TJ Senden… - Physical review …, 2008‏ - APS
Using sedimentation to obtain precisely controlled packings of noncohesive spheres, we
find that the volume fraction ϕ RLP of the loosest mechanically stable packing is in an …