  This paper presents a brief review and latest results of the work that has
been carried out by the Planetary Science community in order to understand that
role of the geotechnical properties of granular asteroids (commonly known as
"rubble-pile" asteroids) in their formation, evolution and possible disruption.
As such, we will touch in aspects of the theoretical and numerical tools that
have been used with this objective and how the obtained results compare to the
observed asteroids.
