Packing problems are ubiquitous,, ranging from oil extraction through porous rocks to grain
storage in silos and the compaction of pharmaceutical powders into tablets. At a given …

We experimentally study the mechanical pressure exerted by a set of respectively passive
isotropic and self-propelled polar disks onto two different flexible unidimensional …

The physical properties of granular materials have been extensively studied in recent years.
So far, however, there exists no theoretical framework which can explain the observations in …

Random packings of objects of a particular shape are ubiquitous in science and
engineering. However, such jammed matter states have eluded any systematic theoretical …

Although jammed granular systems are athermal, several thermodynamiclike descriptions
have been proposed which make quantitative predictions about the distribution of volume …

Using x-ray tomography, we experimentally investigate granular packings subject to
mechanical tapping for three types of beads with different friction coefficients. We validate …

We experimentally probe the vicinity of the jamming point J, located at a density ϕ
corresponding to random close packing (ϕ rcp= 0.842), in two dimensional, bidisperse …

Rate‐and state‐dependent friction (RSF) equations are commonly used to describe the time‐
dependent frictional response of fault gouge to perturbations in sliding velocity. Among the …

This article provides a review of particle packing models. A summary roadmap shows their
disciplinary genesis and the multidisciplinary interactions that have shaped them over a 100 …

In particulate soft matter systems the average number of contacts Z of a particle is an
important predictor of the mechanical properties of the system. Using x-ray tomography, we …