This is a survey of the interesting phenomenology and the prominent regimes of granular
flow, followed by a unified mathematical synthesis of continuum modeling. The unification is …

A general thermodynamic-based framework for deriving coupled temperature-dependent
viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, viscodamage, and micro-damage healing constitutive models …

This paper presents a synthesis of the works performed by various teams from France, Italy
and Canada around the question of second‐order work criterion. Because of the non …

The shear band issue in frictional granular materials has attracted many concerns and
perspectives at the micro-and meso-scale have been involved to analyze this problem. At …

We examine emergent, self-organized particle cluster conformations in quasistatically
deforming dense granular materials from the perspective of structural stability. A structural …

Granular materials react with complicated mechanical responses when subjected to external
loading paths. This leads to sophisticated constitutive formulations requiring large numbers …

The concept of failure is one of the most debated in soil mechanics, for two reasons
essentially. First, this is a crucial issue in the engineering of structures and geotechnical …

Solving boundary value problems requires implementation of sufficiently robust constitutive
models. Most models try to incorporate a great deal of phenomenological ingredients, but …

This paper investigates the issue of failure in rate-independent granular material specimens
under a novel line of reasoning. The mechanism of failure is related to an increase in kinetic …

The mechanical behavior of granular materials is widely governed by microstructure
reorganizations. This constant evolution of the microscale geometry is often taken into …