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 …

Structured fabrics, such as woven sheets or chain mail armours, derive their properties both
from the constitutive materials and their geometry,. Their design can target desirable …

Gels made from soft microscale particles smoothly transition between the fluid and solid
states, making them an ideal medium in which to create macroscopic structures with …

This study aims to explore a chain mail fabric with fast, reversible, and controllable stiffness
adjustment. The structured fabric consists of three-dimensional single-cell particles. The …

Variable stiffness fabrics have gained considerable attention due to their advantages in
repeatability, deformability, and controllability of stiffness. However, existing variable …

Particles suspended in a Newtonian fluid raise the viscosity and also generally give rise to a
shear-rate dependent rheology. In particular, pronounced shear thickening may be …

Discontinuous shear thickening (DST) observed in many dense athermal suspensions has
proven difficult to understand and to reproduce by numerical simulation. By introducing a …

Shear thickening is a type of non-Newtonian behavior in which the stress required to shear a
fluid increases faster than linearly with shear rate. Many concentrated suspensions of …

Liquid-like at rest, dense suspensions of hard particles can undergo striking transformations
in behaviour when agitated or sheared. These phenomena include solidification during …