OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Granular Matter is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Powder spreading in laser-powder bed fusion process	45
Solid–fluid sequentially coupled simulation of internal erosion of soils due to seepage	31
Stress based multi-contact model for discrete-element simulations	27
The tribological behavior of iron tailing sand grain contacts in dry, water and biopolymer immersed states	27
Evaluating the particle rolling effect on the characteristic features of granular material under the critical state soil mechanics framework	26
Particle shape effects on the shear behaviors of granular assemblies: irregularity and elongation	25
Effects of particle morphology on the minimum and maximum void ratios of granular materials	25
Influence of various DEM shape representation methods on packing and shearing of granular assemblies	25
Deposition morphology of granular column collapses	21
Data-driven discovery of interpretable causal relations for deep learning material laws with uncertainty propagation	21
Particle shape effect on the shear banding in DEM-simulated sands	20
Effects of grain morphology on suffusion susceptibility of cohesionless soils	19
Effects of particle gradation and geometry on the pore characteristics and water retention curves of granular soils: a combined DEM and PNM investigation	19
Using a proper orthogonal decomposition to elucidate features in granular flows	18
Linking shape and rotation of grains during triaxial compression of sand	18
3D DEM analysis of soil excavation test on lunar regolith simulant	18
Damping prediction of particle dampers for structures under forced vibration using effective fields	17
Quantitative distribution characteristics of force chains for asphalt mixtures with three skeleton structures using discrete element method	17
DEM study on the response of fresh concrete under vibration	17
Soft particles reinforce robotic grippers: robotic grippers based on granular jamming of soft particles	17
On the contact problem of soft-rigid interfaces: incorporation of Mindlin-Deresiewicz and self-deformation concepts	16
Triaxial compression behavior of 3D printed and natural sands	15
Stress-dilatancy behaviour of fouled ballast: experiments and DEM modelling	14
Analysis of contact force characteristics of vibratory finishing within pipe-cavity	14
Investigating the effects of elongation and flatness on the shear behaviour of breakable granular materials via the DEM	14

A comparative assessment and unification of bond models in DEM simulations	14
A modified method for morphology quantification and generation of 2D granular particles	13
The soft discrete element method	13
Beverloo law for hopper flow derived from self-similar profiles	13
Effect of the granular material on the maximum holding force of a granular gripper	12
Comparative study of high-pressure fluid flow in densely packed granules using a 3D CFD model in a continuous medium and a simplified 2D DEM-CFD approach	12
Estimation of contact forces of granular materials under uniaxial compression based on a machine learning model	11
Porosity distribution of moving burden layers in the blast furnace throat	11
Effect of the intermediate principal stress on the mechanical responses of binary granular mixtures with different fines contents	11
Wave transmission in 2D nonlinear granular-solid interfaces, including rotational and frictional effects	11
A new DEM model to simulate the abrasion behavior of irregularly-shaped coarse granular aggregates	11
Structural evolution of granular systems: theory	11
A semi-empirical re-evaluation of the influence of state on elastic stiffness in granular materials	11
Projectile oblique impact on granular media: penetration depth and dynamic process	10
Numerical analysis of capillary bridges and coalescence in a triplet of spheres	10
Meso-scale signatures of inertial transitions in granular materials	10
DEM modelling of railway ballast using the Conical Damage Model: a comprehensive parametrisation strategy	10
Un-jamming due to energetic instability: statics to dynamics	10
A granular thermometer	10
DEM numerical tests on dry granular specimens: the role of strain rate under evolving/unsteady conditions	10
An improved index of mixing degree and its effect on the strength of binary geotechnical mixtures	10
Influence of grain shape on stress-dilatancy parameters	10
Characterization and modeling of granular jamming: models for mechanical design	10
Coriolis-induced instabilities in centrifuge modeling of granular flow	10
Flow resistance in the transition from dense to dilute granular-fluid flows	10
Investigation of the interaction of particulate matter and its separation from the gas flow in a multi-channel cyclone with recirculation	10
Effects of plastic fines content on the engineering properties of cement-stabilized sands	9
Deep learning assisted particle identification in photoelastic images of granular flows	9
DEM simulations of agglomerates impact breakage using Timoshenko beam bond model	9
Fine material migration modelled by cellular automata	9
Analysis of the stiffness and damping characteristics of compacted sand-in-fines granular composites: a multiscale investigation	9
DEM simulation of small strain and large strain behaviors of granular soils with a coherent contact model	9
Constant speed penetration into granular materials: drag forces from the quasistatic to inertial regime	9
The collapse of a granular column onto an erodible bed: dynamics and morphology scaling	9
Numerical study on movements of soil particles forming clogging layer during vacuum preloading of dredged slurry	9
Stress field equations for a disk subjected to self-equilibrated arbitrary loads: revisited	8
Stress transmission in entangled granular structures	8
Elastic constants obtained analytically from microscopic features for regularly arranged elliptical particle assembly	8
A discrete element framework for modeling the mechanical behaviour of snow—Part I: Mechanical behaviour and numerical model	8
Evaluation of sand–geomembrane interface behavior using discrete element method	8
The spherical primitive and perlin noise method to recreate realistic aggregate shapes	8
Influence of particle size and packing on the thermal conductivity of carbonate sand	8
The relationship between contact network and energy dissipation in granular materials	8
Research and application on large-scale coarse-grained soil filling characteristics and gradation optimization	8
The influence of image analysis methodology on the calculation of granular temperature for granular flows	8
Systematic effect of particle roundness/angularity on macro- and microscopic behavior of granular materials	8
Investigating the rheology of fluidized and non-fluidized gas-particle beds: implications for the dynamics of geophysical flows and substrate entrainment	8
Mechanism study of the evolution of quasi-elasticity of granular soil during cyclic loading	8
Incremental shear strain chain: a mesoscale concept for slip lines in 2D granular materials	7
Intruders cooperatively interact with a wall into granular matter	7

Quantifying three-dimensional sphericity indices of irregular fine particles from 2D images through sequential sieving tests	7
Pore space evolution of granular assemblies under shear: an experimental study using X-ray tomography	7
Compaction of bi-dispersed granular packing: analogy with chemical thermodynamics	7
Stiffness and strength of an artificially cemented sand cured under stress	7
On the scaling of fragmentation and energy dissipation in collisions of dust aggregates	7
Horizontal penetration of a finite-length intruder in granular materials	7
DEM model calibration and contact force network analysis of sand-EPS (rigid-soft) granular system subjected to one-dimensional compression	7
An updated critical state model by incorporating inertial effects for granular material in solid–fluid transition regime	7
Fluidization of soil under increasing seepage flow: an energy perspective through CFD-DEM coupling	7
Influence of hydrate participation on the mechanical behaviour of fine-grained sediments under one-dimensional compression: a DEM study	6
DEM analysis of undrained cyclic behavior and resistance of saturated dense sand without stress reversals	6
Numerical analysis of the influence of the near ground turbulence on the wind-sand flow under the natural wind	6
DEM modelling of cone penetration tests in lunar soil	6
A stress dilatancy relationship for coarse-grained soils incorporating particle breakage	6
DEM study of an “avatar” railway ballast with real particle shape, fabric and contact mechanics	6
Strength criteria at anisotropic principal directions expressed in closed form by interparticle parameters for elliptical particle assembly	6
A representation learning framework for detection and characterization of dead versus strain localization zones from pre- to post-failure	6
On regular and random two-dimensional packing of crosses	6
Effect of particle breakage-induced frictional weakening on the dynamics of landslides	6
Micromechanical investigation of the shear behaviors of sand‒rubber mixtures using a multibody meshfree method	6
DEM parameter acquisition and calibration of corn stalk non-spherical particles using particle trajectory tracking	6
CFD-DEM coupled calculation of entrained air and particles movement characteristics during particles flow impacting the wall process	6
Calibration of DEM macro and micro parameters via XGBoost method	6
What is shape? Characterizing particle morphology with genetic algorithms and deep generative models	6
Simulating shearing behavior of realistic granular soils using physics engine	6
Linking the macro-scale response of granular materials during drained cyclic loading to the evolution of micro-structure, contact network and energy components	6
On the determination and evolution of fabric in representative elementary volumes for a sand specimen in triaxial compression	6
How vorticity and agglomeration control shear strength in soft cohesive granular flows	6
The concept of the mobilized domain: how it can explain and predict the forces exerted by a cohesive granular avalanche on an obstacle	6
One-dimensional compression characteristics of uniformly graded sand under high stresses	6