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 …

The formation of cracks and emergence of shearing planes and other modes of rapid
macroscopic failure in geologic granular media involve numerous grain scale mechanical …

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 …

We analyze the main features of granular shear flow through experimental measurements in
a Couette geometry and a comparison to a locally Newtonian, continuum model of granular …

Terrestrial arthropods negotiate demanding terrain more effectively than any search-and-
rescue robot. Slow, precise stepping using distributed neural feedback is one strategy for …

Partially molten rocks, often called a mush, are examples of a hydrogranular mixture where
the dynamics are controlled by both fluid and crystal‐crystal interactions. An obstacle to …

Nonlinearity in dynamics and acoustics may be viewed as scattering of energy across
frequencies/wavenumbers. This is in contrast with linear systems when no such scattering …

Copper slag (CS) is a granulated cohesionless glassy material with the appearance of dark
black coloured sandy size material. Copper slag is classified as poorly graded sand (SP) as …

Interparticle contact friction, packing density and polydispersity are known to be major
contributors to the macroscopic strength of particulate assemblies, that is, their bulk …

The evolution of granular shear flow is investigated as a function of height in a split-bottom
Couette cell. Using particle tracking, magnetic-resonance imaging, and large-scale …