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 are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

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

Uncovering grain-scale mechanisms that underlie the disorder–order transition in
assemblies of dissipative, athermal particles is a fundamental problem with technological …

Periodic organization of cells is required for the function of many organs and tissues. The
development of such periodic patterns is typically associated with mechanisms based on …

We review an experimental method that allows to probe the time-dependent structure of fully
three-dimensional densely packed granular materials and suspensions by means of particle …

Soil compaction not only reduces available pore volume in which fluids are stored, but it
alters the arrangement of soil constituents and pore geometry, thereby adversely impacting …

A statistical description of static granular material requires ergodic sampling of the phase
space spanned by the different configurations of the particles. We periodically fluidize a …

This work proposes a model for granular deformation that predicts the stress and velocity
profiles in well-developed dense granular flows. Recent models for granular elasticity [Jiang …

Deformation and failure mode of carbonate rocks depend on the confining pressure. In this
study, the mechanical behavior of a limestone with an initial porosity of 14.7% is investigated …