Congratulations! The thesis can be found here.
Akankshya Majhi graduated
Strain dependent viscous response describes the mechanics of cohesionless soft granular materials
Hydrogel packings reveal a curious rate dependence that can be capture with a modified non-linear spring-dashpot model.
Chandan Shakya, Luca Placidi, Anil Misra, Lars Kool, Anke Lindner, Jasper van der Gucht, Joshua A. Dijksman — Physical Review Materials 10 (2026)
Powders & Grains in Goa, India
It was great to be present with a Keynote (Joshua) and a poster (Tommaso) at the Powders & Grains Conference in Goa. Lots of old friends were there!
Richard Benders graduated
Group activity
Our periodic group activity started with a dinner in the famous pub Florin in Utrecht.
Visiting Birmingham
Visiting Kit Windows-Yule and team at Birmingham, to see all the fascinating physics they do for flow and particle analysis!
Chandan Shakya graduated
Congratulations! The thesis can be found here.
The lubricating effect of fats on pellet manufacturing
Adding fats helps – sometimes – in lubricating of pellet manufacturing.
T.M.M. Bastiaansen, G. Verge-Mèrida, R.T. Benders, J.A. Dijksman, M. Thomas, W.H. Hendriks, S. de Vries, M. Devant, G. Bosch — Animal Feed Science and Technology 326 (2025)
Agglomeration during reactive extrusion of particle-based biomass pellets
What makes them stick? Temperature certainly plays a role.
Richard T. Benders, Menno Thomas, Thomas M.M. Bastiaansen, Jasper van der Gucht, Joshua A. Dijksman — Powders & Grains 2025 – 10th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media (2025)
Group dinner before summer
Tom Mullin was visiting again, and the many interns and Project students also joing the fun!
MultiPhase Matters 