Establishing quantifiable links between individual-particle dynamics and macroscopic
response of granular materials has been a longstanding challenge, with implications in …

The vibration dynamics of relatively large granular grains is extensively treated in the
literature, but comparable studies on the self-assembly of smaller agitated beads are …

Oscillatory-driven amorphous materials forget their initial configuration and converge to limit
cycles. Here we investigate this memory loss under a nonquasistatic drive in a minimal …

The question of when and how dense granular materials start to flow under stress, despite
many industrial and geophysical applications, remains largely unresolved. We develop and …

We show here that rotations of round particles in amorphous disk packing reveal various
nontrivial microscopic features when the packing is close to rigidification. We analyze …

Displacement fields in sheared particle packings often display vortex-like structures that
reveal essential features about the mechanical state of the collection of particles. There are …

Microstructural dynamics in amorphous particle packings is commonly probed by quantifying
particle displacements. While rigidity in particle packings emerges when displacement of …

Granular matter is a broad term that describes materials comprised of macroscopic grains.
Granular material has unique properties that can mimic either a solid-or fluid-like system and …