Dynamic Response of Granular and Porous Materials under Large and Catastrophic Deformations

Part I. Avalanches, Debris and Mud Flows

1. Rapid Granular Avalanches
John Mark Nicholas Timm Gray

2. Gravity-Driven Rapid Shear Flows of Dry Granular Masses in Topographies with Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Metrics
Shiva P. Pudasaini, Kolumban Hutter, Winfried Eckart

3. A Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite-Volume Method for Simulating Free Surface Flows of Granular Avalanches
Karl Koschdon, Michael Schäfer

4. Experimental Information on the Dynamics of Dry-Snow Avalanches
Dieter Issler

5. Numerical Simulation of Dry-Snow Avalanche Flow over Natural Terrain
Thomas Zwinger, Alfred Kluwick, Peter Sampl

6. Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) for Granular Avalanches on Inclined Planes
Winfried Eckart, John Mark Nicholas Timm Gray, Kolumban hutter

7. Existence of Avalanching Flows
Reinhard Farwig

8. Group Theoretic Methods and Similarity Solutions of the Savage—Hutter Equations
Vladimir Chugunov, John Mark Nicholas Timm Gray, Kolumban Hutter

Part II. Porous and Granular Materials. Fundamentals and Dynamical Processes

9. Dynamics of Hypoplastic Materials: Theory and Numerical Implementation
Vladimir A. Osinov, Gerd Gudehus

10. Acoustic Waves in Porous Solid—Fluid Mixtures
Krzysztof Wilmański, Bettina Albers

11. Dissipation Influence on Cooling of 2-Dimensional Hard Needle Systems
Agnieszka Chrzanowska, Harald Ehrentraut

12. Induced Anisotropy in Rapid Flows of Nonspherical Granular Materials
Harald Ehrentraut, Agnieszka Chrzanowska

Part III. Porous and Granular Materials. Subscale- and Micromechanical Effects

13. Modelling Particle Size Segregation in Granular Mixtures
Nina P. Kirchner, Kolumban Hutter

14. Gravity-Induced Segregation of Cohesionless Granular Mixtures
Eliot Fried, Bidhan C. Roy

Keywords: Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Mechanics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials