Views on Microstructures in Granular Materials

X-ray tomography experiments on sand at different scales.- Dense, inhomogeneous, granular shearing.- The effective stress of unsaturated soils - thermodynamic connections to intrinsic and measured suctions.- Notes on constitutive relations for solid with nano-pores.- Hyperplasticity: from Micro to Macro.- Wave propagation and elasticity in granular soils: a numerical approach for a micromechanical perspective.- Macroscale yield criteria for geomaterials.- Biological driven phase transitions in fully or partly saturated porous media - a multi-component FEM simulation based on the Theory of Porous Media.- Elasticity and mechanical behaviour of granular materials: some insights from numerical studies of simple systems.- Multiscale phenomena in Continuum Mechanics: Mesoscopic justification of Rational Extended Thermodynamics of Gases with internal structure.- A multi-scale continuum view of granular flows.