Аннотация:The existence of a knee at a few PeV in the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum has
been well established by several experiments but its physical origin has eluded researches for a
long time. It is believed that keys to disentangle the mystery could be found in the spectrum and
the composition of cosmic rays between 1 PeV and 1 EeV. A first detailed look into the elemental
chemical abundances of cosmic rays in this energy regime was provided by both the KASCADE and
the KASCADE-Grande experiments. Their measurements opened the door to a wealth of new data
on the subject, which led to the discovery of new structures in the all-particle energy spectrum and the
confirmation of knee-like features in the spectra of individual mass groups, as well as the observation
of an unexpected ankle-like structure at around 100 PeV in the flux of the light component of cosmic
rays. In this contribution, early findings with the KASCADE-Grande experiment will be reviewed
and then a short update on the analyses currently performed with the data of the observatory will be
presented.