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 …

An unsaturated soil is a state of the soil. All soils can be partially saturated with water.
Therefore, constitutive models for soils should ideally represent the soil behaviour over …

Yade is an extensible open-source framework for discrete numerical models, focused on the
Discrete Element Method. The computation parts are written in c++ using a flexible object …

The range of problems that geotechnical engineers must face is increasing in complexity
and scope. Often, complexity arises from the interaction between the soil and the …

Numerical modelling, particularly fully-coupled hydro-mechanical large-deformation models,
greatly helps in properly simulating the complex failure and post-failure mechanisms of …

This paper is a review of the use of particulate discrete element modeling (DEM) in
geomechanics. The overall objective of the paper is to serve as an introduction to …

We propose a method for effectively upscaling incompressible viscous flow in large random
polydispersed sphere packings: the emphasis of this method is on the determination of the …

ABSTRACT The use of Discrete Element Methods (DEM) to investigate mechanical
properties of geomaterials is growing fast and their applications in geotechnics have …

SUMMARY A micro‐hydromechanical model for granular materials is presented. It combines
the discrete element method for the modeling of the solid phase and a pore‐scale finite …

This manuscript introduces a unified mathematical framework to replicate both desiccation-
induced and hydraulic fracturing in low-permeable unsaturated porous materials observed …