Granular matter is all around us. Examples include sand, rice, nuts, coffee and even snow. These materials are made of solid particles that are large enough not to experience thermal fluctuations. Instead, their state is determined by mechanical influences: shaking produces "granular gases" while one gets "granular solids" by compression. An unusual feature of such solids is that forces within the material concentrate along essentially linear paths called force chains whose shape resembles that ...
Granular matter is all around us. Examples include sand, rice, nuts, coffee and even snow. These materials are made of solid particles that are large enough not to experience thermal fluctuations. Instead, their state is determined by mechanical influences: shaking produces "granular gases" while one gets "granular solids" by compression. An unusual feature of such solids is that forces within the material concentrate along essentially linear paths called force chains whose shape resembles that ...
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