Degradation of geomaterials, that is, particle breakage, can be harmful to the full life-cycle
stability of practical engineering; for example, rockfill dam, energy-pile foundation, railway …

The particle breakage and compressibility behavior of sands treated with microbially
induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) has been investigated using oedometric …

The effect of particle shape on the strength, dilatancy, and stress-dilatancy relationship was
systematically investigated through a series of drained triaxial compression tests on sands …

Grain crushing is commonly encountered in deep foundation engineering, high rockfill dam
engineering, railway engineering, mining engineering, coastal engineering, petroleum …

Calcareous sand is a typical problematic marine sediment because of its angular and
porous particles. The effects of internal pores on the mechanical properties of calcareous …

Particle crushing underpins important macroscopic behaviour of granular materials such as
yielding, deformation, dilatancy, failure, mobility and packing features. The crushing …

The coexistence of broken and unbroken grains in each size range can disturb the
assessment of actual amount of particle breakage. In this study, a series of one-dimensional …

The influence of particle shape on the mechanics of sand is widely recognized, especially in
mineral processing and geomechanics. However, most existing continuum theories for …

Granular media generally exhibit fluid phase, solid phase, or two coexisting phases, and the
mechanism of the phase transition is not clear enough. Therefore, unlike the airflow …

This work uses synchrotron X-ray tomography to quantify the role of the particle shape on
the interaction between collective comminution and individual grain fracture. Two sands …