Rattler wedging and force chain buckling: metastable attractor dynamics of local grain rearrangements underlie globally bistable shear banding regime

Microscopic Origins of Shear Jamming for 2D Frictional Grains

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Elastogranular Mechanics: Buckling, Jamming, and Structure Formation

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Rattlers' contribution to granular plasticity and mechanical stability

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A data-driven complex systems approach to early prediction of landslides

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Rattler-induced aging dynamics in jammed granular systems

(2017) Ferdinando Giacco et al.   Soft Matter

On the kinematics and dynamics of crystal-rich systems

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3D multiscale modeling of strain localization in granular media

(2016) Ning Guo et al.   COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS

Flow-to-fracture transition in a volcanic mush plug may govern normal eruptions at Stromboli

(2016) J. Suckale et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The critical state of granular media: convergence, stationarity and disorder

(2016) M. R. Kuhn   GEOTECHNIQUE

Memory of jamming–multiscale models for soft and granular matter

(2016) Nishant Kumar et al.   GRANULAR MATTER

Granular vortices: Identification, characterization and conditions for the localization of deformation

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Exploring the contact types within mixtures of different shapes at the steady state by DEM

(2016) Y. Yang et al.   POWDER TECHNOLOGY

Memory of jamming–multiscale models for soft and granular matter

(2016) Nishant Kumar et al.   GRANULAR MATTER

Self-assembly in a near-frictionless granular material: conformational structures and transitions in uniaxial cyclic compression of hydrogel spheres

(2015) David M. Walker et al.   Soft Matter

On micromechanical characteristics of the critical state of two-dimensional granular materials

(2014) N. P. Kruyt et al.   ACTA MECHANICA

Dense granular flow at the critical state: maximum entropy and topological disorder

(2014) Matthew R. Kuhn   GRANULAR MATTER

Micromechanics of vortices in granular media: connection to shear bands and implications for continuum modelling of failure in geomaterials

(2014) Antoinette Tordesillas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS

Mesoscale and macroscale kinetic energy fluxes from granular fabric evolution

(2014) David M. Walker et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Characterizing chaotic dynamics from simulations of large strain behavior of a granular material under biaxial compression

(2013) Michael Small et al.   CHAOS

A critical state sand plasticity model accounting for fabric evolution

(2013) Zhiwei Gao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS

The signature of shear-induced anisotropy in granular media

(2012) Ning Guo et al.   COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS

Transition dynamics and magic-number-like behavior of frictional granular clusters

(2012) Antoinette Tordesillas et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Evolution of force chains in shear bands in sands

(2010) A. RECHENMACHER et al.   GEOTECHNIQUE

Structural stability and jamming of self-organized cluster conformations in dense granular materials

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On the modeling of confined buckling of force chains

(2009) Antoinette Tordesillas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

A new open-source software developed for numerical simulations using discrete modeling methods

(2008) J. Kozicki et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING

Mesoscale Measures of Nonaffine Deformation in Dense Granular Assemblies

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