Granular Materials in Civil Engineering: Recent Advances in the Physics of Their Mechanical Behavior and Applications to Engineering Works - Multiscale Geomechanics: From Soil to Engineering Projects - page 49

Figure 3.7. Detailed internal structure of shear bands steady solution (exponential profile):
a) dissipative structure; b) comparison between theoretical and experimental shear profiles
The energy dissipation structure induced shows that, for badly graded granular
media, 99% of the energy dissipation within the shear band takes place in the center