Shelly carbonate sands proliferate in regions of the world where construction of offshore
structures is in high demand. These structurally weak sands have high intra-granular voids …

Numerous studies have shown that the fabric of granular materials plays a fundamental role
in its macroscopic behaviour. Due to technical limitations, this fabric remained inaccessible …

The inter-particle contact evolution of two sheared granular materials, ie, a spherical glass
bead (GB) specimen and an angular Leighton Buzzard Sand (LBS) specimen, is …

Particle kinematics including particle translation and particle rotation, plays a very important
role in the shearing behavior of granular soils. In this study, a particle-tracking method based …

Particle crushing has been recognised as being of key importance for many engineering
applications. In soil mechanics, this phenomenon has become crucial for defining a …

The role of particle shape on soil mechanical response has been studied extensively
especially through numerical means. The underlying micromechanics of how particle shape …

This paper presents the results and analyses of uniaxial compression experiments
performed on three silica sands. The sands have comparable particle-size distributions, but …

Abstract In situ, three-dimensional (3D) characterizations of particle breakage in porous
carbonate sands are presented, for the first time, with synchrotron-based micro computed …

The most commonly adopted method to test the strength of single sand particles is based on
platen experiments. This setup tends to align the loading direction towards the particle …

Understanding the time-dependent deformation behaviour of backfill coral sand is important
to the long-term stability of engineering facilities built on reefs and reclaimed land. A series …