Activity of the technical committee on the mechanics of granular materials - TC 13

The technical committee on the mechanics of granular materials (called TC-13) has been working since 1995 to promote co-operation and exchange information in the field of mechanics of granular materials. The main target is to encourage researches which can be applied to the fundamental subjects on the particulate mechanics such as micro-mechanical constitutive modeling of materials and explanation of micro-mechanism of the progressive failure. With such scope in mind, TC-13 organized the workshop at Hamburg, and is also planning to publish an introductory textbook on the mechanics of granular materials.