Physics of Dry Granular Media

1. Static Packings.- 1. Continuum Modeling of Granular Assemblies: Quasi-Static Dilatancy and Yield.- 2. Modeling and Granular Material Boundary Value Problems.- 3. Models of Stress Propagation in Granular Media.- 4. Elastoplastic Arching in Two Dimensional Granular Heaps.- 5. A Scalar Arching Model.- 6. Stress Correlations and Weight Distributions in Granular Packs.- 7. Exact Determination of Force Networks in a Static Assembly of Discs.- 8. Experimental Study of the Force Distributions inside 2D Granular Systems.- 9. Statistical Analysis of Silo Wall Pressures.- 2. Deformation of the Packing.- 1. Non-Associated Plasticity for Soils, Concrete and Rock.- 2. Static and Dynamic Arching Effect in Granular Materials.- 3. Collisions and Fluctuations for Granular Materials.- 4. Texture-Dependent Rigid-Plastic Behavior.- 5. Fluctuations and Flow for Granular Shearing: Results from Experiment and Simulation.- 6. A Continuum Description of Arching Effects.- 7. Pressure Fluctuations in a Granular Column.- 8. Friction. Dilation, and Plastic Flow Potential.- 9. Particle Kinematics in Sheared Rod Assemblies: Experimental Observations.- 3. Particle-Particle Interactions.- 1. Quasi-Static Contacts.- 2. Collisions & Contacts betweeen Two Particles.- 3. Multicontact Dynamics.- 4. Lasting Contacts in Molecular Dynamics Simulations.- 4. Shape of the Granular Heap.- 1. On the Shape of a Sandpile.- 2. Formation of Sandpiles, Avalanches on an Inclined Plane.- 3. A Minimal Model Approach for Morphodynamics of Dunes.- 5. Theory of Rapid Flows.- 1. Kinetic Theory for Nearly Elastic Spheres.- 2. Kinetics and Dynamics of Rapid Granular Flows.- 3. Inelastic Collisions in Planetary Rings: Thickness and Satellite-Induced Structures.- 4. A Microscopic Model of Energy Dissipation in Granular Collisions.- 5. DSMC — a Stochastic Algorithm for Granular Matter.- 6. Avalanches and Inclined Chutes.- 1. Continuous Flows and Avalanches of Grains.- 2. Friction in Granular Media.- 3. A Phenomenological Model for Avalanches and Surface Flows.- 4. Avalanches in Piles of Rice.- 5. Dynamics of a Ball Roling Down a Rough Inclined Surface.- 6. Chaotic Behavior of a Ball Bouncing on a Rough Inclined Line.- 7. Flow in Pipes and Hoppers.- 1., Granular Flow in Hoppers and Tubes: Gas Grain Interaction.- 2. 1/f Noise in Pipe Flow.- 3. Particles in Liquids.- 4. Similarities between Granular and Traffic Flow.- 8. Vibration.- 1. Chicago Experiments on Convection, Compaction, and Compression.- 2. Granular Packing under Vibration.- 3. Granular Dynamics of Shaking.- 4. Pattern Formation in Vertically Vibrated Granular Layers: Experiment and Simulation.- 5. Faraday Patterns in 2D Granular Layers.- 6. Is There a Critical Accelaration for the Onset of Convection?.- 7. Frustrated Models for Compact Packings.- 8. Rotation and Reptation.- 9. Segregation.- 1. Particle Segregation in Collisional Flows of Inelastic Spheres.- 2. Depletion and Multiparticle Segregation.- 3. Spontaneous Self-Stratification without Shaking.- 4. Segregation due to Surface Flows of Granular Mixtures.- 5. Cellular Automata Models for Granular Media.- 6. Particle Size Segregation. Granular Shocks and Stratification Patterns.- 7. Segregation of Granular Particles in a Nearly Packed Rotating Cylinder: A New Insight for Axial Segregation.- Author Index.