[HTML][HTML] A generalized anisotropic failure criterion for geomaterials

Z Gao, J Zhao, Y Yao - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2010 - Elsevier
Experimental evidence shows that the strength of geomaterials, such as soils and rocks, is
significantly influenced by inherent anisotropy and other factors such as shear banding and …

Monotonic and cyclic behaviour of sand in direct simple shear test conditions considering low stresses

MA Al Tarhouni, B Hawlader - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Many geotechnical problems, such as buried pipeline–soil interaction and wave loading on
sand seabeds, require the soil behaviour at relatively low effective stresses as compared to …

3D experimental quantification of fabric and fabric evolution of sheared granular materials using synchrotron micro-computed tomography

WH Imseeh, AM Druckrey, KA Alshibli - Granular Matter, 2018 - Springer
Many experimental studies have demonstrated that mechanical response of granular
materials is highly influenced by micro-structural fabric and its evolution. In the current …

Modeling of geomaterials behavior

K Soga, C O'SULLIVAN - Soils and foundations, 2010 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The review of 50 years of papers published in Soils and Foundations demonstrates that
signiˆcant eŠort has been made by many researchers to develop soil models. The …

Micromechanical mechanism-based anisotropic strength criteria for regularly arranged elliptical particle assembly

Z Zhou, H Wang, M Jiang - Acta Geotechnica, 2024 - Springer
Using the microstructural mechanics approach, the macroscopic anisotropic failure criteria
expressed in closed form by the microscopic parameters are derived for regularly arranged …

Directional-dependence in the mechanical characteristics of sand: a review

AHJ Al-Rkaby, A Chegenizadeh… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The majority of granular soil is anisotropic material and it exhibits stress–strain variations
depending on principal stress directions. Such directions acting on granular deposits vary …

Induced force chain anisotropy of cohesionless granular materials during biaxial compression

L Fu, S Zhou, P Guo, S Wang, Z Luo - Granular Matter, 2019 - Springer
This paper investigates the induced anisotropy and multi-scale shear characteristics of
granular materials by quantifying force chain distribution in two-dimensional specimens of …

Efficient approach to characterize strength anisotropy in soils

Z Gao, J Zhao - Journal of engineering mechanics, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
Strength anisotropy in soils needs to be characterized by proper anisotropic failure criterion.
This paper presents a novel yet simple methodology to generalize an isotropic failure …

DEM investigation on the evolution of fabric under true triaxial conditions in granular materials

Y Liu, D Zhang, S Wu, P Yu - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
The evolution of fabric under loading plays an important role in the micromechanical
analysis of granular materials. This paper addressed this issue from the perspective of the …

[HTML][HTML] Induced fabric anisotropy of granular materials in biaxial tests along imposed strain paths

J Shi, P Guo - Soils and Foundations, 2018 - Elsevier
In granular materials, loading on an initially isotopic assembly usually induces particle
rearrangement, and this is referred to as the induced anisotropy of fabric. A series of biaxial …