Granular matter is ubiquitous in nature and is present in diverse forms in important
engineering, industrial and natural processes. Particle-based computational modelling has …

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 …

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 …

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) …

The rolling resistance model has been employed in the discrete element modelling in
geomechanics, as an alternative computationally efficient approach to capture the …

In this work, we numerically investigate the quasi-static shear behavior of ellipsoids under
triaxial compression using the level set discrete element method (LS-DEM). Assemblies …

When velocity jumps are occurring, the dynamics is said to be nonsmooth. For instance, in
collections of contacting rigid bodies, jumps are caused by shocks and dry friction. Without …

Particle shape has been regarded as a key factor affecting mechanical behaviors of granular
assemblies. The present work proposes a shape descriptor, ie, asphericity, to isolate the …

We present a numerical analysis of the effect of particle elongation on the quasistatic
behavior of sheared granular media by means of the contact dynamics method. The particle …

Using contact dynamics simulations, we compare the effect of rolling resistance at the
contacts in granular systems composed of disks with the effect of angularity in granular …