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20022025
most citedThermal conductivity of hemp concretes: Variation with formulation, density and water content

374 citations

88 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Predicting cement microstructure and mechanical properties in hydrating cement paste with a Phase-Field model

Alexandre Sac-Morane, Katerina Ioannidou, Manolis Veveakis +1

Predicting the evolving microstructure of hydrating cement is essential for understanding and modeling its mechanical property development. Physics-based continuum approaches offer…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 165 cited

Influence of the dividing surface notion on the formulation of Tolman's law

Martin Thomas Horsch

The influence of the surface curvature on the surface tension of small droplets at equilibrium with a surrounding vapour, or small bubbles at equilibrium with a surrounding liquid,…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 2 cited

Loss of memory of an elastic line on its way to limit cycles

Elisabeth Agoritsas, Jonathan Barés

Under an oscillating mechanical drive, an amorphous material progressively forgets its initial configuration and might eventually converge to a limit cycle. Beyond quasistatic driv…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 16 cited

Ion specificity of confined ion-water structuring and nanoscale surface forces in clays

Francis Dragulet, Abhay Goyal, Katerina Ioannidou +2

Ion specificity and related Hofmeister effects, ubiquitous in aqueous systems, can have spectacular consequences in hydrated clays, where ion-specific nanoscale surface forces can…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 10 cited

Experimental validation of a micromechanically-based compaction law for soft/hard grain mixtures

Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, Jonathan Barés, Mathieu Renouf +1

In this letter, we report on an experimental study which analyzes the compressive behavior of 2D bidisperse granular assemblies made of soft (hyperelastic) and hard grains in varyi…

physics.app-ph2021★ 78 cited

The physics of cement cohesion

Abhay Goyal, Ivan Palaia, Katerina Ioannidou +5

Cement is one of the most produced materials in the world. A major player in greenhouse gas emissions, it is the main binding agent in concrete, to which it provides a cohesive str…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 1 cited

Strength and energy consumption of inherently anisotropic rocks at failure

David Cantor, Carlos Ovalle, Emilien Azéma

Using a discrete-element approach and a bonding interaction law, we model and test crushable inherently anisotropic structures reminiscent of the layering found in sedimentary and…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 2 cited

Bulk modulus of soft particle assemblies under compression

David Cantor, Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, Itthichai Preechawuttipong +2

Using a numerical approach based on the coupling of the discrete and finite element methods, we explore the variation of the bulk modulus K of soft particle assemblies undergoing i…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 2 cited

Highly strained mixtures of bidimensional soft and rigid grains: an experimental approach from the local scale

Jonathan Barés, Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, David Cantor +2

Granular systems are not always homogeneous and can be composed of grains with very different mechanical properties. To improve our understanding of the behavior of real granular s…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 17 cited

Micromechanical description of the compaction of soft pentagon assemblies

Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, David Cantor, Jonathan Barés +2

We analyze the isotropic compaction of assemblies composed of soft pentagons interacting through classical Coulomb friction via numerical simulations. The effect of the initial par…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 4 cited

Controlling crackling dynamics by triggering low intensity avalanches

Jonathan Barés, Daniel Bonamy

We examine the effect of small, spatially localized, excitations applied periodically in different manners, on the crackling dynamics of a brittle crack driven slowly in a heteroge…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 25 cited

Compaction of mixtures of rigid and highly deformable particles: a micro-mechanical model

Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, David Cantor, Jonathan Barés +2

We analyze the isotropic compaction of mixtures composed of rigid and deformable incompressible particles by the non-smooth contact dynamics approach (NSCD). The deformable bodies…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 20 cited

Effects of particle compressibility on structural and mechanical properties of compressed soft granular materials

Thi-Lo Vu, Saeid Nezamabadi, Serge Mora

Changes in the mechanical properties of granular materials, induced by variations in the intrinsic compressibility of the particles, are investigated by means of numerical simulati…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 13 cited

Cutting and slicing weak solids

Serge Mora, Yves Pomeau

Dicing soft solids with a sharp knife is quicker and smoother if the blade is sliding rapidly parallel to its edge in addition to the normal squeezing motion. We explain this commo…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 29 cited

Yielding, Rigidity, and Tensile Stress in Sheared Columns of Hexapod Granules

Yuchen Zhao, Jonathan Barés, Joshua E. S. Socolar

Granular packings of non-convex or elongated particles can form free-standing structures like walls or arches. For some particle shapes, such as staples, the rigidity arises from i…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 8 cited

Transparent Experiments: Releasing Data from Mechanical Tests on Three Dimensional Hydrogel Sphere Packings

Jonathan Barés, Nicolas Brodu, Hu Zheng +1

We describe here experiments on the mechanics of hydrogel particle packings from the Behringer lab, performed between 2012 and 2015. These experiments quantify the evolution of all…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 11 cited

Sheared Amorphous Packings Display Two Separate Particle Transport Mechanisms

Dong Wang, Joshua A. Dijksman, Jonathan Bares +2

Shearing granular materials induces non-affine displacements. Such non-affine displacements have been studied extensively, and are known to correlate with plasticity and other mech…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 52 cited

Small Solar System Bodies as granular media

D. Hestroffer, P. Sánchez, L. Staron +12

Asteroids and other Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) are of high general and scientific interest in many aspects. The origin, formation, and evolution of our Solar System (and oth…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 63 cited

Multiscale Poromechanics of Wet Cement Paste

Tingtao Zhou, Katerina Ioannidou, Franz-Josef Ulm +2

Capillary effects such as imbibition-drying cycles impact the mechanics of granular systems over time. A multiscale poromechanics framework was applied to cement paste, that is the…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 59 cited

Shear jammed, fragile, and steady states in homogeneously strained granular materials

Yiqiu Zhao, Jonathan Barés, Hu Zheng +2

We study the jamming phase diagram of sheared granular material using a novel Couette shear set-up with multi-ring bottom. The set-up uses small basal friction forces to apply a vo…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 24 cited

Soft grain compression: beyond the jamming point

Thi-Lo Vu, Jonathan Barés

We present the experimental studies of highly strained soft bidisperse granular systems made of hyperelastic and plastic particles. We explore the behavior of granular matter deep…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 124 cited

Enlightening force chains: a review of photoelasticimetry in granular matter

Aghil Abed Zadeh, Jonathan Barés, Theodore A. Brzinski +10

A photoelastic material will reveal its internal stresses when observed through polarizing filters. This eye-catching property has enlightened our understanding of granular materia…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 16 cited

Jamming transition in non-spherical particle systems: pentagons vs. disks

Yiqiu Zhao, Jonathan Barés, Hu Zheng +4

We investigate the jamming transition in a quasi-2D granular material composed of regular pentagons or disks subjected to quasistatic uniaxial compression. We report six major find…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 13 cited

Seismic-like organization of avalanches in a driven long-range elastic string as a paradigm of brittle cracks

Jonathan Barés, Daniel Bonamy, Alberto Rosso

Very often damage and fracture in heterogeneous materials exhibit bursty dynamics made of successive impulse-like events which form characteristic aftershock sequences obeying spec…