Research on soft materials, including colloidal suspensions, glasses, pastes, emulsions,
foams, polymer networks, liquid crystals, granular materials, and cells, has captured the …

Shear bands, localized regions where shear flows concentrate, form in many complex fluids
under a wide range of circumstances. In this review, we outline the main mechanisms that …

Concrete, the solid that forms at room temperature from mixing Portland cement with water,
sand, and aggregates, suffers from time-dependent deformation under load. This creep …

Most studies on granular physics have focused on dry granular media, with no liquids
between the grains. However, in geology and many real world applications (eg food …

Abstract The 1992 magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake triggered an exceptional number of
additional earthquakes within California and as far north as Yellowstone and Montana …

Recent advances in understanding model systems of wet granular materials are presented,
with particular emphasis on statistical concepts, dynamics, and phase transitions. It is …

The discrete element modelling of triaxial tests plays a critical role in unveiling fundamental
properties of particulate materials, but the numerical implementation of a flexible membrane …

Earth's surface is composed of a staggering diversity of particulate–fluid mixtures: dry to wet,
dilute to dense, colloidal to granular and attractive to repulsive particles. This material variety …

It remains unknown how the small strains induced by seismic waves can trigger earthquakes
at large distances, in some cases thousands of kilometres from the triggering earthquake …

Recent modeling studies have explored whether earthquakes begin with a large aseismic
nucleation process or initiate dynamically from the rapid growth of a smaller instability in a …