We consider the problem of stress transmission in granular materials. We formulate the simplest statically determinate problem of stress transmission through a static granular material. This is the case when grains are rigid and have an average coordination number of z̄=d+1. Under this...

For packed i.e., “jammed”, hard and rough objects kinetic energy is a minor and ignorable quantity, as is elastic strain. Hence in the static case, the stress equations need supplementing by “missing equations” depending solely on configurations. A different pathway of analysis is the...

The simplest solvable problem of stress transmission through a static granular material is when the grains are perfectly rigid and have an average coordination number of z̄=d+1. Under these conditions there exists an analysis of stress which is independent of the analysis of strain and the d...