Mechanics of Natural Solids

1. Sand as an archetypical natural solid
Dimitrios Kolymbas

2. The Physics of Granular Mechanics
Yimin Jiang, Mario Liu

3. Are we there yet? Following the energy trail in cohesionless granular solids
Antoinette Tordesillas, Robert P. Behringer

4. Micromechanical alternatives to phenomenological hardening plasticity
Itai Einav, Giang D. Nguyen

5. Mechanisms of localized deformation in geomaterials: an experimental insight using full-field measurement techniques
Gioacchino Viggiani

6. Two-dimensional Distinct Element Method (DEM) modeling of tectonic fault growth in mechanically layered sequences
Martin P. J. Schöpfer, Conrad Childs, John J. Walsh

7. When geophysics met geomechanics: Imaging of geomechanical properties and processes using elastic waves
Stephen A. Hall

8. Fracture of Ice and other Coulombic Materials
Erland M. Schulson

9. Experimental studies of the viscoplasticty of ice and snow
Jacques Meyssonnier, Armelle Philip, Laura Capolo, Philippe Mansuy

10. Discontinuities in granular materials: Particle-level mechanisms
J. Carlos Santamarina, Hosung Shin

11. Grain Crushing, Pore Collapse and Strain Localization in Porous Sandstone
Teng-fong Wong, Patrick Baud

12. Long term behaviour and size effects of coarse granular media
E. E. Alonso, L. Oldecop, N. M. Pinyol

13. Nature – A Very Clever Experimentalist
Gary D. Couples

Keywords: Engineering, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Sedimentology, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials