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July 3, 2023 - Vasileios Angelidakis was invited to give a talk on June 30, 2023 at the Summer Semester Colloquium of the Chair of Methods for Model-based Development in Computational Engineering (MBD) of RWTH Aachen. The talk, entitled "From Soil Mechanics to Granular Metamaterials: Exploring the U...

June 30, 2023 - Dr. Abate, from Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina), will be a visiting researcher at MSS. She will study alongside Angel Santarossa and Dr. Achim Sack crack propagation and crack-front segmentation in brittle hydrogels with X-ray Computed Tomography.

June 12, 2023 - Olfa D’Angelo and Qing Yu are performing experiments under low-gravity, using the two facilities available at ZARM in Bremen: the drop tower and the new Gravi-Tower. They are studying the packing of granular materials under different gravitational accelerations, in the context of Qin...

MSS is organising the 9th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods. For more information click here.

May 28, 2023 - The issue 20 of Soft Matter selected our contribution as cover image. This image relates to the article Macroscopic analogue to entangled polymers, published by Leopoldo Gómez, Nicolas García and Thorsten Pöschel. Discover the article here.

May 1, 2023 - The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is an essential numerical tool for the simulation of granular materials, and is central to many research projects of the MSS. This semester, Vasileios Angelidakis teaches a new MSc course entitled Discrete Element Simulations, which he designed to e...

April 11, 2023 - Nicolas Pechler has joined as our new PhD student.

March 1, 2023 - The award was given in the annual Symposium of the Department of Chemical and Bioengineering. They received the prize for their poster:"Adaptive metamaterials based on granular jamming".

December 15, 2022 - During the Christmas Party of the Department of Chemical and Bioengineering, Achim Sack proudly received the Students Award for Excellent Teaching for his lecture "Measuring Techniques” during the Summer Semester 2022.

November 16, 2022 - Olfa D’Angelo published the article “Granular piston-probing in microgravity: powder compression from densification to jamming” in npj Microgravity. This articles shows experimental evidence that granular jamming happens at a lower packing fraction under microgravity than under E...