The arrangements of particles and forces in granular materials have a complex organization
on multiple spatial scales that range from local structures to mesoscale and system-wide …

Plant root system development is highly modulated by the physical properties of the soil and
especially by its mechanical resistance to penetration. The interplay between the …

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 …

Granular hydrogels have been increasingly exploited in biomedical applications, including
wound healing and cardiac repair. Despite their utility, design guidelines for engineering …

It has been observed that the majority of particles in a granular material carries less than the
average load and that the number of particles carrying larger than the average load …

Glasses are rigid, but flow when the temperature is increased. Similarly, granular materials
are rigid, but become unjammed and flow if sufficient shear stress is applied. The rigid and …

We investigate shear strength properties of wet granular materials in the pendular state (ie,
the state where the liquid phase is discontinuous) as a function of water content. Sand and …

The contact dynamics (CD) method is presented as a discrete element method for the
simulation of nonsmooth granular dynamics at the scale of particle rearrangements where …

A machine learning-based strategy is presented to estimate the contact force chains of
uniformly sized spherical granular materials under triaxial compression, using particle …

A non-local theory is proposed to model dense granular flows. The idea is to describe the
rearrangements occurring when a granular material is sheared as a self-activated process …