The loading of a granular material induces anisotropies of the particle arrangement (fabric)
and of the material's strength, incremental stiffness, and permeability. Thirteen measures of …

Loading direction-dependent strength of sand has been traditionally characterized in the
principal stress space as a direct extension of the Mohr–Coulomb criterion. A recent study …

Contact problem suffers from a numerical instability similar to that encountered in
incompressible elasticity, in which the normal contact pressure exhibits spurious oscillation …

The mechanical behavior of monolithic cementitious materials is known to be significantly
affected by their granular nature. This paper describes an approach to incorporate the …

Thermomechanics and granular micromechanics approaches are combined to derive
constitutive equations for modeling rate-dependent granular materials with damage and …

The small-strain elastic shear wave velocity (V_S VS) is a basic mechanical property of soils
and is an important parameter in geotechnical engineering. Recently, V_S VS has been …

Constitutive equations for class of materials that possess granular microstructure can be
effectively derived using granular micromechanics approach. The stress–strain behavior of …

In this paper, we introduce a new scale called the meso-scale in order to define an
appropriate local scale for multi-scale kinematic analysis in granular materials. The …

Thin or thin-walled structures such as bars, beams, membranes, plates, and shells are the
key structural components in engineering designs–practically at any length scale …

Numerical simulation of non-linear elastic wave propagation in rocks is indispensable for
understanding stress/damage dependence of wave velocity changes and the associated …