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 …

Cet article est une introduction à la physique de la localisation de la déformation dans les
milieux granulaires. Il présente les caractéristiques essentielles du phénomène …

Dense topologically interlocked panels are made of well-ordered, stiff building blocks
interacting mainly by frictional contact. Under mechanical loads, the deformation of the …

We present the experimental and numerical studies of a two-dimensional sheared
amorphous material composed of bidisperse photoelastic disks. We analyze the statistics of …

We experimentally study the mechanical pressure exerted by a set of respectively passive
isotropic and self-propelled polar disks onto two different flexible unidimensional …

We study the jamming phase diagram of sheared granular material using a novel Couette
shear setup with a multiring bottom. The setup uses small basal friction forces to apply a …

We numerically study the structure of the interactions occurring in three-dimensional
systems of hard spheres at jamming, focusing on the large-scale behavior. Given the …

This research focuses on performing ultrasound propagation measurements and micro-X-
ray computed tomography (µXRCT) imaging on prestressed granular packings prepared …

Granular crystals are intriguing constructs at the intersection between granular matter and
architectured materials, offering new combinations of tunable mechanical properties …

We present a multiscale framework to systematically reduce the order of fracture-mechanics
computations in complex porous microstructures captured by a pore-scale image (eg, X-ray …