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 …

Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and
environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly …

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 …

Many geological materials, such as shale, mudstone, carbonate rock, limestone and rock
salt are multi-porosity porous media in which pores of different scales may co-exist in the …

Highlights•Review of agricultural material parameters for DEM modelling.•Contact models
reviewed and characterised.•Models of representation of shape of particles discussed.• …

Constitutive relation remains one of the most important, yet fundamental challenges in the
study of granular materials. Instead of using closed-form phenomenological models or …

The objective of this contribution is to present a unifying review on strain-driven
computational homogenization at finite strains, thereby elaborating on computational …

Many problems in geotechnical engineering involve large movements or rotations,
examples include natural processes such as landslides, and man-made processes such as …

The analytical description of path-dependent elastic-plastic responses of a granular system
is highly complicated because of continuously evolving microstructures and strain …

Large deformation soil behavior underpins the operation and performance for a wide range
of key geotechnical structures and needs to be properly considered in their modeling …