Blumenfeld, Raphael - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336 (2004) 3, pp. 361-368
A recent theory for stress transmission in isostatic granular and cellular systems predicts a constitutive equation that couples the stress field to the local microstructure (Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 115505). The theory could not be applied to macroscopic systems because the constitutive...