We propose a method to characterize the geometrical texture of a granular packing at the particle scale including the steric hindrance effect. This method is based on the assumption of a maximum directional disorder (statistical entropy) compatible with both the strain-induced anisotropy of the contact network and steric exclusions. We show that the predicted statistics for the local configurations are in fairly good agreement with our numerical data.
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