Programme  Titles  Presenters  Topics  Session 3B: Continuum Modeling Tuesday, July 14, 2009, Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:00 am Metals Hall Chair: Christine Hrenya 3B-1 Plasticity of Granular Materials: a Structural-mechanics View Niels Kruyt, Leo Rothenburg* 3B-2 Some Issues in Micromechanical Modeling for Granular Assembly Ching Chang*, Pierre-Yves Hicher 3B-3 GSH, or Granular Solid Hydrodynamics: On the Analogy Between Sand and Polymers Yimin Jiang, Mario Liu* 3B-4 Constant Pressure Axisymmetric Compression of an Aggregate of Identical, Elastic, Frictional Spheres. Luigi La Ragione*, Vanessa Magnanimo, James T. Jenkins 3B-5 FE-studies of different aspects of shear localization in granular bodies within micro-polar hypoplasticity Jacek Tejchman