Non-Linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • E. Guyon

   Pages 1-4

3. Decompaction, fluidisation and segregation in a 2D sandpile

   • J. Duran, T. Mazozi, J. Rajchenbach, E. Clément

   Pages 5-17

4. Granular flow: Some experimental results

   • Daniel Bideau, F. X. Riguidel, A. Hansen, G. Ristow, X. I. Wu, K. J. Måløy et al.

   Pages 18-27

5. Density waves in granular flow

   • H. J. Herrmann, E. Flekkøy, K. Nagel, G. Peng, G. Ristow

   Pages 28-39

6. Height fluctuations and pressure distribution in a model of random close packing of mono-size discs

   • M. K. Hari Menon

   Pages 40-46

7. Statics and dynamics of sandpiles: Some phenomenological ideas

   • J. P. Bouchaud

   Pages 47-53

8. Some physical properties of the Burridge-Knopoff model

   • Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Jean Schmittbuhl, Stéphane Roux

   Pages 54-77

9. Jerky flow, stick-slip in geological materials and earthquake models

   • G. Ananthakrishna, Hema Ramachandran

   Pages 78-106

10. Dynamics and structure of displacement fronts in two-dimensional porous media

    • Knut Jørgen Maløy, Liv Furuberg, Einar Hinrichsen, Jens Feder, Torstein Jøssang

    Pages 107-123

11. Heterogeneous porous media: Fronts and noise

    • M. Chaouchel, N. Rakotomalala, D. Salin, B. Xu, Y. C. Yortsos

    Pages 124-133

12. Pattern formation in particulate complex fluids: A guided tour

    • Henri Van Damme, Emmanuel Lemaire, Y. Ould, Mohamed Abdelhaye, A. Mourchid, P. Levitz

    Pages 134-150

13. Solvable models of material breakdown

    • P. L. Leath, P. M. Duxbury

    Pages 151-170

14. Fracture and other breakdown phenomena in disordered solids

    • Bikas K. Chakrabarti

    Pages 171-185

15. Spring-network and finite-element models for elasticity and fracture

    • A. Jagota, S. J. Bennison

    Pages 186-201

16. Ginzburg-Landau form description for steps on creep curves

    • Mulugeta Bekele, G. Ananthakrishna

    Pages 202-220

17. Laboratory simulation of dielectric breakdown

    • L. Benguigui, P. Ron

    Pages 221-234

18. Fracture roughness and physical implications

    • Stéphane Roux

    Pages 235-247

19. Rock fracturing by gas loading for well stimulation

    • L. Petitjean, B. Couët

    Pages 248-260

20. Physics of random nonlinear composites

    • P. M. Hui

    Pages 261-270

There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance. This has been mainly due to new applications of statistical physics, including percolation theory, fractal concepts and self-organized criticality. This collection of articles brings together research in those closely allied fields. It deals with problems in material science involving random geometries and nonlinearity at a mesoscopic scale, where local disorder and nonlinearity influence the global behaviour of cracks, for example, and problems where randomness in time evolution is as crucial as the geometry itself.

• Breakdown
• Complex fluids
• Earthquake
• Fractals
• Granular flow
• Mesoscopic physics
• Percolating solids
• Random composites
• Sandpile
• Soft Condensed Matter
• fracture
• porous media
• solids

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