Frédéric Freundler

Stiffness Variability in Jamming of Compliant Granules and a Case Study Application in Climbing Vertical Shafts

Jamming of granular media has been shown to possess the property of stiffness variation, transitioning from a soft to a quasi-solid state depending on the packing density of the granules. Recently, a gradual stiffness change for bending has been reported by using compliant, cubic shaped granules. He…