[HTML][HTML] A review of methods, applications and limitations for incorporating fluid flow in the discrete element method

T Wang, F Zhang, J Furtney, B Damjanac - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed the substantial growth in research interests and progress on
the subject of coupled hydro-mechanical processes in rocks and soils, driven mainly by the …

Internal instability in soils: a critical review of the fundamentals and ramifications

SM Dassanayake, AA Mousa… - Transportation …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Seepage-induced fine-particle migration that leads to a change in the conductivity of a soil
matrix is referred to as internal instability. This could jeopardize the structural integrity of the …

On the distinct phenomena of suffusion and suffosion

RJ Fannin, P Slangen - Géotechnique Letters, 2014 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Seepage-induced internal instability is a phenomenon whereby fine particles are
transported from a non-plastic soil. A distinction can readily be made between a washed-out …

Assessing the susceptibility of gap-graded soils to internal erosion: proposition of a new experimental methodology

D Marot, A Rochim, HH Nguyen, F Bendahmane… - Natural Hazards, 2016 - Springer
Suffusion and global backward erosion are two of the main internal erosion processes in
earth structures and their foundations which may increase their failure risk. For other …

Three-dimensional DEM modeling of the stress–strain behavior for the gap-graded soils subjected to internal erosion

F Zhang, M Li, M Peng, C Chen, L Zhang - Acta Geotechnica, 2019 - Springer
In this work, 3D discrete element method modeling of drained shearing tests with gap-
graded soils after internal erosion is carried out based on published experimental results …

Internal erosion in dike‐on‐foundation modeled by a coupled hydromechanical approach

J Yang, ZY Yin, F Laouafa… - International Journal for …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major causes of instability in geotechnical structures such as dikes or earth dams
is internal erosion, an insidious process that occurs over a long period of time. Research on …

A description of internal erosion by suffusion and induced settlements on cohesionless granular matter

L Sibille, D Marot, Y Sail - Acta geotechnica, 2015 - Springer
Cohesionless granular matter subjected to internal flow can incur an internal erosion by
suffusion characterized by a migration of its finest constituting particles. A series of suffusion …

A coupled hydro-mechanical model for subsurface erosion with analyses of soil pi** and void formation

IC Scheperboer, ASJ Suiker, E Bosco, FHLR Clemens - Acta Geotechnica, 2022 - Springer
A coupled hydro-mechanical erosion model is presented that is used for studying soil pi**
and erosion void formation under practical, in-situ conditions. The continuum model treats …

[HTML][HTML] The work input to saturated porous media undergoing internal erosion

DG Phan, GD Nguyen, HH Bui - International Journal of Solids and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanism of internal erosion in porous media involves the microstructural evolutions
induced by washing out of fine particles under different loading and seepage flow actions …

[LIVRE][B] Erosion of geomaterials

S Bonelli - 2012 - books.google.com
This book aims to deliver significant scientific progress on the problem of the erosion of
geomaterials, focusing on the mechanical/physical aspect. The chapters oscillate between a …