3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Many-body activity emerging in a monolayer of air-fluidized hollow pentagons
Wan-Jung Lin, Bohan Wu-Zhang, Rodrigo Fernández-Quevedo GarcÃa +6
Particles governed by many-body interactions exhibit remarkably complex structures and dynamics. We experimentally investigate a monolayer of pentagon particles subjected to an up-…
cond-mat.soft2026
Structural aging of a cohesive and amorphous granular solid under cyclic loading
William Hobson-Rhoades, Douglas J Durian, Yue Fan +1
We investigate how cyclic loading evolves the structure and deformation behaviors of a granular raft composed of particles floating at an air-oil interface. The raft has a disorder…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Disorder Enhances the Fracture Toughness of Mechanical Metamaterials
Sage Fulco, Michal K. Budzik, Hongyi Xiao +2
Mechanical metamaterials with engineered failure properties typically rely on periodic unit cell geometries or bespoke microstructures to achieve their unique properties. We demons…