Improvement of the shearing behaviour of loess using recycled straw fiber reinforcement

ZF Xue, WC Cheng, L Wang, G Song - KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Reinforcing structural members and construction materials using recycled fibers has
become popular in the past decades due to sustainable development concerns. The …

Micro-mechanical analysis of soil–structure interface behavior under constant normal stiffness condition with DEM

P Wang, ZY Yin, WH Zhou, W Chen - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
The mechanical behavior at soil–structure interface (SSI) has a crucial influence on the
safety and stability of geotechnical structures. However, the behavior of SSI under constant …

Effect of particle breakage on the behavior of soil-structure interface under constant normal stiffness condition with DEM

P Wang, ZY Yin - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous studies show that extensive particle breakage occurs at the soil-structure interface,
which may influence the shear strength, but a corresponding comprehensive micro …

Effect of interparticle behavior on the development of soil arching in soil-structure interaction

MI Peerun, DEL Ong, CS Choo, WC Cheng - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2020 - Elsevier
Direct shear tests have been commonly used to study the frictional stresses during pipe-
jacking. Particle angularity and mineralogy will influence the shear strength with apparent …

Grain size distribution does not affect the residual shear strength of granular materials: An experimental proof

O Polanía, M Cabrera, M Renouf, E Azéma, N Estrada - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Granular materials are used in several fields and in a wide variety of processes. An
important feature of these materials is the diversity of grain sizes, commonly referred to as …

Critical Review of Physical-Mechanical Principles in Geostructure-Soil Interface Mechanics

TA Pham, S Nadimi, M Sutman - Geotechnical and Geological …, 2024 - Springer
Due to the relatively different mechanical and physical properties of soils and structures, the
interface plays a critical role in the transfer of stress and strain between them. The stability …

3D DEM investigation of shear behavior and interaction mechanism of woven geotextile-sand interfaces

Y Jia, J Zhang, Y Zheng - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical study on the investigation of microscopic mechanism
governing the interaction of woven geotextile and angular sand employing the 3D discrete …

DEM study on shear behavior of geogrid-soil interfaces subjected to shear in different directions

Y Jia, J Zhang, X Chen, C Miao, Y Zheng - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional discrete element method (DEM) model was developed to explore the
influences of shear direction and geogrid anisotropy on the shear strength behavior of …

3D DEM simulations of monotonic interface behaviour between cohesionless sand and rigid wall of different roughness

A Grabowski, M Nitka, J Tejchman - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
The paper deals with three-dimensional simulations of a monotonic quasi-static interface
behaviour between cohesionless sand and a rigid wall of different roughness during wall …

Reconstruction of irregular elongated/flattened particles and generation of particle aggregates with customizable form distributions

M Fan, D Su, D Wu, X Chen - Powder Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we introduced a new method to address the limitations of the traditional
spherical harmonic (SH) analysis when reconstructing the morphology of …