| Preface | |
| Keynote lecture: Avalanches of granular materials | p. 3 |
| Unto dust shalt thou return | p. 13 |
| Discrete particle simulation of dispersed gas-solid flows | p. 25 |
| Viscoelastic coalescence of spherical particles | p. 31 |
| Compaction of a granular packing with a lubricant | p. 37 |
| Process modeling and design for colloidal powder forming | p. 41 |
| Fluid dynamics and phase separation in the uniaxial compaction of powders | p. 45 |
| Industrial research needs in the development and processing of products having concentrated particulate phases | p. 49 |
| Dynamic behavior of sand under S.H.P.B. loading | p. 53 |
| The in-situ characterization of mechanical properties of granular media with the help of penetrometers | p. 57 |
| Why prediction of grain behavior is difficult in geological granular systems | p. 61 |
| Effect of particle size on instantaneous pressure in pulse-stabilized fluidization | p. 65 |
| Liquefaction: A phenomenon specific to granular media | p. 69 |
| Liquefaction characteristics of very loose Hostun RF sand in triaxial compression and extension | p. 75 |
| Sand motion and permeability changes induced by filter flows | p. 79 |
| Wall friction measurement for sugar crystals | p. 83 |
| Effect of micromechanical parameters on stresses and displacements in an ensiled granular material using the Distinct Element Method | p. 87 |
| Mechanism governing the relationship between solids and gas rates in pneumatic conveying at low and very low velocities | p. 91 |
| Two phase flows in granular materials: Particle-particle and particle-fluid interaction | p. 95 |
| The characteristics of 'material-wall interactions' in silo during emptying: Flow pattern and pressure distributions | p. 99 |
| Evolution and modelling of porosity and specific surface area of pharmaceutical tablets during compaction | p. 105 |
| The packing of fine, cohesive powders | p. 109 |
| Discrete element modeling of fabrication flaw precursors in the compaction of agglomerated ceramic powders | p. 113 |
| Experimental characterization and modelling of the densification of powder mixtures | p. 117 |
| Mechanical properties and attrition resistance of porous agglomerates | p. 121 |
| Steel powder forming analysis by smooth particle method | p. 125 |
| Effects of particle size and bond strength on impact breakage of weak agglomerates | p. 127 |
| Fracture of particulate solids | p. 131 |
| The shear fracture of a tilted layer of cohesive powder | p. 135 |
| Numerical modelling of the mechanical behavior of non spherical, crushable particles | p. 139 |
| The strength of granules produced from fine powders | p. 143 |
| Effects of humidity on quasi-static behavior of granular media | p. 147 |
| A disc centrifuge for the study of flow processes in cohesive granular materials | p. 151 |
| Effect of shear strain rate on attrition of particulate solids in a shear cell | p. 155 |
| A microscopic simulation of oblique collisions of 'wet' agglomerates | p. 159 |
| Tensile strength and void fraction as functions of consolidation stress for a set of xerographic toners | p. 163 |
| Attractors, percolation thresholds and phase limits of granular soils | p. 169 |
| Problems in the statics and dynamics of granular materials | p. 185 |
| The stress-strain behavior of granular materials under shearing based on the mechanism of fabric change | p. 195 |
| Statistical homogenization for granular media - Application to non linear elastic modelling | p. 199 |
| A micro mechanical model for overconsolidated behaviour in soils | p. 203 |
| Importance of particle rotation in the mechanics of granular materials | p. 207 |
| Force networks in dense granular media | p. 211 |
| Contact disorder and nonlinear elasticity of granular packings: A simple model | p. 215 |
| A micromechanical comparison between experimental results and numerical simulation of a biaxial test on 2D granular material | p. 219 |
| Uniaxial compression of granular media: Numerical simulations and physical experiment | p. 223 |
| On arching in dry granular materials | p. 227 |
| Elastoplastic arching in 2D granular heaps | p. 231 |
| Fabric and contact parameters for sand from wave velocity measurements | p. 235 |
| Inelastic behavior of random arrays of identical disks | p. 239 |
| Linear and non-linear elasticity of granular media: Stress-induced anisotropy of a random sphere pack | p. 243 |
| Discrete and continuum models in the mechanics of granular materials | p. 247 |
| Analysis of micro-variables through entropy principle | p. 251 |
| Classification of granular materials | p. 255 |
| Numerical estimation of the elastic properties of cemented granular materials with microstructure | p. 259 |
| Numerical simulation of the amorphous interfacial material behaviour | p. 263 |
| Grain convection and diffusion in a 2-D embankment under slow cyclic deformation | p. 267 |
| Damage and fatigue modeling for bonded particulate materials | p. 271 |
| Evolution of microstructure in granular materials: Experimental results | p. 275 |
| The yield surface of granular materials determined by the fabric | p. 279 |
| Yield conditions of an assembly of disks subjected to a deviatoric stress system | p. 283 |
| Voronoi tessellation of packings of equal spheres | p. 287 |
| Calculation of the effective moduli of a random packing of spheres using a perturbation of the uniform strain approximation | p. 291 |
| Stress distribution in an inclined pile: Soil mechanics calculation using finite element technique | p. 295 |
| New statistical measures for analysis of granule assemblies | p. 299 |
| Arching effects in the stress distribution of sandpiles | p. 303 |
| Simplified tangential force-displacement models for a discrete element particle flow code | p. 307 |
| Contact of rough elastic spheres: A simplified analysis | p. 311 |
| Intermittency and self-similarity in granular media | p. 317 |
| Intermittences in the compression process of a model granular medium | p. 321 |
| Models for stress fluctuations in plasticity | p. 325 |
| Sensitive force measurements in a sheared granular flow with simultaneous imaging | p. 329 |
| Stress fluctuations for sheared 3D granular materials | p. 333 |
| Fluctuations and dynamics for a two-dimensional sheared granular material | p. 337 |
| Hydrodynamic fluctuations and averaging problems in dense granular flows | p. 341 |
| Stress distributions in a two dimensional granular material | p. 345 |
| Fluctuating aspects of the pressure in a granular column | p. 349 |
| Modelling techniques for granular media using small assemblies | p. 353 |
| Metastability and instability in model grain piles | p. 357 |
| Plane waves and dynamic ill-posedness in granular media | p. 363 |
| Stripes, squares, hexagons, and localized structures in vertically vibrated granular layers | p. 369 |
| Surface waves and pattern formation in vibrated granular beds | p. 373 |
| Studies of granular compaction | p. 377 |
| Vibrofluidized beds of solid granules: From experiments to hydrodynamic model | p. 381 |
| Size-dependent segregation in a 3D vibrated bed | p. 385 |
| Size-segregation and mixing effects in audio-fluidised binary powders | p. 389 |
| NMR measurements demonstrate increased intensity of collisions near walls in a vibrating granular material | p. 393 |
| Wavy instability in shaken sand | p. 397 |
| Sand behaviour in cavity filled with liquid and submitted to horizontal vibrations | p. 401 |
| Convection due to horizontal shaking | p. 405 |
| Chaos in one-dimensional granular flows with oscillating boundaries | p. 409 |
| Vertical vibrations of granular materials between two parallel horizontal walls | p. 413 |
| Two hydrodynamic models of granular convection | p. 417 |
| Hydrodynamical levitation of heavy solid body in cavity submitted to rotational vibrations | p. 421 |
| Cellular automata models for granular materials | p. 425 |
| 2D vertically vibrated granular media: Experiment and simulation | p. 429 |
| Investigation of f/2 and f/4 waves in granular beds subject to vertical, sinusoidal oscillations | p. 433 |
| Surface flows of granular mixtures | p. 439 |
| Avalanche segregation of granular media | p. 443 |
| NMR measurement and approximate derivation of the velocity depth-profile of granular flow in a rotating, partially filled, horizontal cylinder | p. 447 |
| Fingering instability in granular flows | p. 451 |
| Experimental study of rapid granular flows in a two-dimensional channel | p. 455 |
| Observations and simulations of the flow of nearly-ellipsoidal, inelastic particles down a bumpy incline | p. 459 |
| NMR and mechanical measurements of the collisional dissipation of granular flow in a rotating, partially filled, horizontal cylinder | p. 463 |
| Simulation of polydisperse media for combined methods | p. 467 |
| Stopping distance: A way to understand energy dissipation in a granular flow experimentally modeled | p. 471 |
| Analogy between granular flows down an inclined channel and the motion of a bead down a bumpy line | p. 475 |
| Segregation in dry granular systems | p. 479 |
| Dynamic angle of repose as a function of mixture concentration: Results from MRI experiments and DEM simulations | p. 483 |
| Experimental mechanics of sand stratification | p. 487 |
| An experimental study of the evolution of density during flow of granular materials | p. 491 |
| Stable configuration of binary mixtures in a horizontal rotating cylinder: Axial migration of granular particles | p. 495 |
| On the dynamics of avalanches for 2D systems | p. 499 |
| Diffusive motion of single particles on an inclined bumpy plane | p. 503 |
| Angle of repose in a rotating drum | p. 507 |
| Some observations on granular flow in hoppers and silos | p. 511 |
| Density effects in cellular automata models of granular materials | p. 515 |
| Slow plane-shear flows of binary granular mixtures | p. 519 |
| Self-organization of uninterrupted traffic flow | p. 523 |
| Outflow rates and wall stresses in 3D hoppers | p. 527 |
| Test of the equipartition principle for granular spheres in a saw-tooth shaker: The effect of gravity | p. 531 |
| Studies of cluster formation due to collisions in granular material | p. 535 |
| Microgravity segregation in binary mixtures of inelastic spheres | p. 539 |
| Experimental study of collisions of angular particles | p. 543 |
| Fermi statistics of weakly excited granular materials | p. 547 |
| Particle diffusion in a porous medium | p. 551 |
| Measurements of collisional properties of spheres | p. 555 |
| Motion of a particle on a rough inclined plane: Comparison of 2 and 3 dimensions | p. 559 |
| The fracture of glass spheres under impact loading | p. 563 |
| Author index | p. 567 |
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