Abstract: Contact fabric is commonly adopted as a micromechanical state variable in many recent constitutive models of granular materials. This is accompanied by an evolution law for the fabric usually in terms of stress, total ...

Abstract: Deformations in granular media are described by using a representation of the microkinematics of the underlying assembly through Dirichlet tessellation. Based on a probabilistic analysis of topological rearrangements induced ...

Abstract: Deformations in granular media are described by using a representation of the microkinematics of the underlying assembly through Dirichlet tessellation. Based on a probabilistic analysis of topological rearrangements induced ...