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 …

A photoelastic material will reveal its internal stresses when observed through polarizing
filters. This eye-catching property has enlightened our understanding of granular materials …

Memory effects in seismology—such as the occurrence of aftershock sequences—are
implicitly assumed to be governed by the time since the main event. However, experiments …

Granular materials have frequently been used as representations of natural fault gouges.
Although they can reproduce proper avalanche behaviors, the universality of the scaling …

Experiments, simulations, and theoretical treatments of granular materials typically feature
circular or elliptical grains. However, grains found in natural systems often have flat faces …

Crackling dynamics is characterized by a release of incoming energy through intermittent
avalanches. The shape, ie, the internal temporal structure of these avalanches, gives …

It is often said that “granular matter is ubiquitous”. Many natural components and human
products look and behave like grains: stones, debris, soils, on the one hand; food …

Crack growth in heterogeneous materials sometimes exhibits crackling dynamics, made of
successive impulselike events with specific scale-invariant time and size organization …

The traction evolution is a fundamental ingredient to model the dynamics of an earthquake
rupture which ultimately controls, during the coseismic phase, the energy release, the stress …

Granular systems of disks (2 D) and spheres (3 D) under shear have been studied
extensively. However, less attention has been paid to systems of non-spherical particles, ie …