The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

Predicting the morphodynamics of sedimentary landscapes due to fluvial and aeolian flows
requires answering the following questions: Is the flow strong enough to initiate sediment …

The subject of this book, soft impact, concerns impact on soft materials such as gases,
liquids, granular matter, and their mixtures. In particular, impacts on granular matter are the …

This review addresses the hydride swelling and shrinking phenomenon, named hydride
breathing, when absorbing and desorbing hydrogen. Two aspects are particularly …

Soils are continuously subjected to thermal loads–and thus to temperature variations–as a
consequence of natural or anthropogenic perturbations that involve the transfer of heat. For …

Soil creeps imperceptibly but relentlessly downhill, shaping landscapes and the human and
ecological communities that live within them. What causes this granular material to 'flow'at …

We study the internal dynamical processes taking place in a granular packing below yield
stress. At all packing fractions and down to vanishingly low applied shear, a logarithmic …

Granular matter exhibits a rich variety of dynamic behaviors, for which the role of thermal
fluctuations is usually ignored. Here we show that thermal fluctuations can pronouncedly …

In the last few decades, the deformation of soils induced by temperature variations has
received increasing attention due to the limited understanding of its governing mechanisms …

Temperature change, as a common kind of internal perturbation performed on granular
materials, has a significant effect on the bulk properties of granular materials. However, few …