Revisiting localized deformation in sand with complex systems

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A.T. thanks Dr John F. Peters for many insightful discussions on strain localization and dedicates this paper to him. We thank the editor and all our reviewers for constructive comments. A. T. and D. M. W. acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council (Discovery grant nos DP0986876 and DP120104759), the US Army Research Office (Single Investigator grant no. W911NF1110175) and the Melbourne Energy Institute. G. V. and E. A. acknowledge Steve Hall, Jacques Desrues and Pierre Besuelle to whom the experimental data on Hostun sand equally belongs. The X-ray scanner in Laboratoire 3SR was principally funded by a project of the French research agency ANR (MicroModEx, contract no. ANR-05-BLAN-0192).