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 …

Granular materials consist of macroscopic grains, interacting via contact forces, and
unaffected by thermal fluctuations. They are one of a class systems that undergo jamming, ie …

The mechanical properties of soft biological tissues are essential to their physiological
function and cannot easily be duplicated by synthetic materials. Unlike simple polymer gels …

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 …

For years, engineers have used elastic and plastic models to describe the properties of
granular solids, such as sand piles and grains in silos,,. However, there are theoretical,, and …

We report on laboratory experiments designed to illuminate grain‐scale deformation
mechanisms within fault gouge. We vary particle size distribution, grain and surface …

An ensemble approach for force distributions in static granular packings is developed. This
framework is based on the separation of packing and force scales, together with an a priori …

We study the origin of the scaling behavior in frictionless granular media above the jamming
transition by analyzing their linear response. The response to local forcing is non-self …

We utilize the tools of persistent homology to analyze features of force networks in dense
granular matter, modeled as a collection of circular, inelastic frictional particles. The …

The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development in the late 1980s, when
physicists first began to use statistical mechanics to study granular media. They are …