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Overview

Farhang Radjai is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has a significant body of research primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work bridges several specialized subfields including Computational Mechanics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ocean Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research focuses extensively on topics related to granular materials and dynamics, including:

  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Numerical methods in engineering

Farhang Radjai has authored numerous scientific papers. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Additive rheology of complex granular flows", 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Evolution of grinding energy and particle size during dry ball-milling of silica sand", 2020, published in Powder Technology
  • "Liquefaction of granular materials in constant-volume cyclic shearing: Transition between solid-like and fluid-like states", 2022, published in Computers and Geotechnics
  • "Evolution of granular materials under isochoric cyclic simple shearing", 2021, published in Physical Review E
  • "Evolution of granular media under constant-volume multidirectional cyclic shearing", 2021, published in Acta Geotechnica

Their publication record also includes book contributions such as "Built on Sand" released by The MIT Press in 2020 and "Built on Sand: The Science of Granular Materials" published by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the same year.

Frequent publication venues where Radjai's work appears include:

  • Physical Review E
  • Powder Technology
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • Soft Matter

Collaboration is a major aspect of Radjai's research, with frequent coauthors being Jean-Yves Delenne, Saeid Nezamabadi, Patrick Mutabaruka, Lhassan Amarsid, and Katerina Ioannidou.

Best Publications

  • Bimodal Character of Stress Transmission in Granular Packings

    Farhang Radjai;Dietrich E. Wolf;Michel Jean;Jean-Jacques Moreau

  • Force Distributions in Dense Two-Dimensional Granular Systems

    Farhang Radjai;Michel Jean;Jean Jacques Moreau;Stéphane Roux

  • Discrete-element modeling of granular materials

    Farhang Radjaï;Frédéric Dubois

  • Shear strength properties of wet granular materials.

    Vincent Richefeu;Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi;Farhang Radjaï

  • Contact dynamics as a nonsmooth discrete element method

    Farhang Radjai;Vincent Richefeu

  • Multiscale force networks in highly polydisperse granular media.

    C. Voivret;F. Radjaï;J.-Y. Delenne;M. S. El Youssoufi

  • Turbulentlike fluctuations in quasistatic flow of granular media.

    Farhang Radjai;Stéphane Roux

  • Contact forces in a granular packing

    Farhang Radjai;Stéphane Roux;Jean Jacques Moreau

  • Quasistatic rheology, force transmission and fabric properties of a packing of irregular polyhedral particles

    Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjai;Gilles Saussine

  • Stress-strain behavior and geometrical properties of packings of elongated particles

    Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjaï

  • Force transmission in a packing of pentagonal particles.

    Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjaï;Robert Peyroux;Gilles Saussine

  • Force chains and contact network topology in sheared packings of elongated particles.

    Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjaï

  • Identification of rolling resistance as a shape parameter in sheared granular media.

    Nicolas Estrada;Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjai;Alfredo Taboada

  • Space-filling properties of polydisperse granular media.

    C. Voivret;F. Radjaï;J.-Y. Delenne;M. S. El Youssoufi

  • Shear strength and force transmission in granular media with rolling resistance.

    Nicolas Estrada;Alfredo Taboada;Farhang Radjaï

  • Packings of irregular polyhedral particles: strength, structure, and effects of angularity.

    Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjai;Frédéric Dubois

  • Micromechanics of granular materials

    Bernard Cambou;Jean Michel;Farhang Radjaï

  • Internal structure of inertial granular flows.

    Emilien Azéma;Farhang Radjaï

  • Preavalanche instabilities in a granular pile.

    Lydie Staron;Jean-Pierre Vilotte;Farhang Radjai

  • Strength and failure of cemented granular matter.

    Vincent Topin;Jean-Yves Delenne;Farhang Radjai;Lothar Brendel

  • An interdisciplinary approach towards improved understanding of soil deformation during compaction

    Thomas Keller;Mathieu Lamandé;S. Peth;M. Berli

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Roux
Stéphane Roux École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Kenichi Soga
Kenichi Soga University of California, Berkeley
François Nicot
François Nicot Grenoble Alpes University
Félix Darve
Félix Darve Grenoble Institute of Technology
Alex Hansen
Alex Hansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Naomi Murdoch
Naomi Murdoch National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space
Daniel J. Scheeres
Daniel J. Scheeres University of Colorado Boulder
Yulong Ding
Yulong Ding University of Birmingham

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