1. Dedication

   • Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
   • Vitali F. Nesterenko

   EditorialNotes 04 April 2009 Pages: 1 - 1

2. À la recherche des années perdues, or, my life is more interesting than formerly thought

   • J. D. Goddard

   EditorialNotes Open access 26 March 2009 Pages: 3 - 8

3. Failure of cemented granular materials under simple compression: experiments and numerical simulations

   • J. -Y. Delenne
   • V. Topin
   • F. Radjai

   OriginalPaper 04 April 2009 Pages: 9 - 21

4. Constitutive equations for ligament and other soft tissue: evaluation by experiment

   • Sarah E. Duenwald
   • Ray Vanderby Jr
   • Roderic S. Lakes

   OriginalPaper 04 April 2009 Pages: 23 - 33

5. Diffuse ultrasonic backscatter in a two-dimensional domain

   • Goutam Ghoshal
   • Joseph A. Turner

   OriginalPaper 21 April 2009 Pages: 35 - 49

6. On the small-defect perturbation and sampling of heterogeneous solids

   • Bojan B. Guzina
   • Huina Yuan

   OriginalPaper 10 April 2009 Pages: 51 - 75

7. Effect of fiber orientation on the non-affine deformation of random fiber networks

   • H. Hatami-Marbini
   • R. C. Picu

   OriginalPaper 04 April 2009 Pages: 77 - 84

8. Pulse propagation in a linear and nonlinear diatomic periodic chain: effects of acoustic frequency band-gap

   • E. B. Herbold
   • J. Kim
   • C. Daraio

   OriginalPaper Open access 21 April 2009 Pages: 85 - 103

9. A thermodynamic framework to develop rate-type models for fluids without instantaneous elasticity

   • S. Karra
   • K. R. Rajagopal

   OriginalPaper 04 April 2009 Pages: 105 - 119

10. A hierarchy of avalanche models on arbitrary topography

    • I. Luca
    • K. Hutter
    • C. Y. Kuo

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2009 Pages: 121 - 149

11. Classical and Cosserat plasticity and viscoplasticity models for slow granular flow

    • Prabhu R. Nott

    OriginalPaper 04 April 2009 Pages: 151 - 160

12. Extremum and variational principles for elastic and inelastic media with fractal geometries

    • Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

    OriginalPaper 07 April 2009 Pages: 161 - 170

13. Geometrical derivation of frictional forces for granular media under slow shearing

    • Andrés A. Peña
    • Pedro G. Lind
    • Hans J. Herrmann

    OriginalPaper 04 April 2009 Pages: 171 - 183

14. Goddard rattler-jamming mechanism for quantifying pressure dependence of elastic moduli of grain packs

    • Steven R. Pride
    • James G. Berryman

    OriginalPaper Open access 04 April 2009 Pages: 185 - 196

15. Propagation and localization of acoustic and elastic waves in heterogeneous materials: renormalization group analysis and numerical simulations

    • Muhammad Sahimi
    • M. Reza Rahimi Tabar
    • S. M. Vaez Allaei

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2009 Pages: 197 - 222