3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Unifying Plasticity in Ordered and Disordered Matter using Topological and Geometrical Descriptors
Xin Wang, Yang Xu, Jin Shang +5
Identifying the regions responsible for plastic flow in amorphous solids remains an open problem, since structural disorder seems to prevent the direct application of concepts such…
cond-mat.soft2025
Friction-controlled reentrant aging and fluidization in granular materials
Ye Yuan, Walter Kob, Hajime Tanaka
Granular materials densify under repeated mechanical perturbations, a nonequilibrium dynamics that underlies many natural and industrial processes. Because granular relaxation is g…
cond-mat.soft2024
Dynamic constraints predict the relaxation of granular materials
Qinghao Mao, Yujie Wang, Walter Kob
Granular materials such as sand, powders, and food grains are ubiquitous in civil engineering, geoscience, agriculture, and medicine. While the influence of friction between the gr…