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 deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

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

When an amorphous material is strained beyond the point of yielding, it enters a state of
continual reconfiguration via dissipative, avalanchelike slip events that relieve built-up local …

Data from experiments and theoretical arguments are the two pillars sustaining the job of
modeling physical systems through inference. In order to solve the inference problem, the …

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 …

The relaxation and aging of an assembly of spherical nanoparticles (NPs) at a water–oil
interface are characterized in situ by grazing incidence X-ray photon correlation …

Understanding the origin of stress drop of fault gouges may offer deeper insights into many
geophysical processes such as earthquakes. Microslips of sheared granular gouges were …

Jammed soft disks exhibit avalanches of particle rearrangements under quasistatic shear.
We introduce a framework for understanding the statistics of the progression of avalanches …

Very soft grain assemblies have unique shape-changing capabilities that allow them to be
compressed far beyond the rigid jammed state by filling void spaces more effectively …