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 …

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 …

The densest amorphous packing of rigid particles is known as random close packing. It has
long been appreciated that higher densities are achieved by using collections of particles …

We carry out numerical simulations to study transport behavior about the jamming transition
of a<? format?> model granular material in two dimensions at zero temperature. Shear …

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 present an analysis of finite-size effects in jammed packings of N soft, frictionless
spheres at zero temperature. There is a 1 N correction to the discrete jump in the contact …

When the packing fraction is increased sufficiently, loose particulates jam to form a rigid
solid in which the constituents are no longer free to move. In typical granular materials and …

Shear bands, localized regions where shear flows concentrate, form in many complex fluids
under a wide range of circumstances. In this review, we outline the main mechanisms that …

While the rheology of non-Brownian suspensions in the dilute regime is well understood,
their behavior in the dense limit remains mystifying. As the packing fraction of particles …

We study the linear and nonlinear elastic behavior of amorphous systems using a two-
dimensional random network of harmonic springs as a model system. A natural …