In 1989, Sir Sam Edwards made the visionary proposition to treat jammed granular materials
using a volume ensemble of equiprobable jammed states in analogy to thermal equilibrium …

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

Starting from three-dimensional volume data of a granular packing, as, eg, obtained by X-ray
Computed Tomography, we discuss methods to first detect the individual particles in the …

We present an experiment on crystallization of packings of macroscopic granular spheres.
This system is often considered to be a model for thermally driven atomic or colloidal …

This article describes a microtomography experimental platform enabling in situ micro-
mechanical study of failure and fragmentation in geomaterials. The system is based on an …

Granular crystallisation is an important phenomenon whereby ordered packing structures
form in granular matter under vibration. However, compared with the well-developed …

This work discusses an experimental technique for studying the mechanics of three-
dimensional (3D) granular solids. The approach combines 3D X-ray diffraction and X-ray …

We consider frictional granular packings exposed to quasi-static compression rates, with a
focus on systems above the jamming transition. For frictionless packings, earlier work (S …

A better understanding of the relation between ore fragmentation and ore texture is a key to
the energy efficient extraction of targeted minerals from low grade ore deposits. In this study …

A theory of size-selective precipitation of spherical nanoparticles is presented. The
precipitate is assumed to be a random loose packing of spheres with low polydispersity (less …