Granular materials are the most recurrent form of solid-state matter on Earth. They challenge
researchers and engineers in various fields not only because they occur with a broad variety …

This fully updated second edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake
engineering for first-year graduate students in geotechnical or earthquake engineering …

Fabric anisotropy has a significant influence on the mechanical behavior of sand. An
anisotropic plasticity model incorporating fabric evolution is formulated in this study …

Small-strain stiffness and stiffness anisotropy of a sand are sensitive to the sand fabric,
which can be significantly affected by particle shape and cementation. In this study …

In this study, the influence of transient flow on the active and passive lateral earth pressures
of variably saturated backfills is thoroughly evaluated employing the lower bound theorems …

This contribution provides high-fidelity images of real granular materials with the aid of X-ray
micro-computed tomography (μCT), and employs a multi-sphere representation to …

The paper begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of small‐strain stiffness and
presents the small‐strain overlay model, a simple model that takes into account the non …

Over the past 50 years, experimental studies have repeatedly demonstrated that the
mechanical behaviour of sand is sensitive to the material fabric, that is, the arrangement of …

This paper is the first of a set of linked publications on the PISA Joint Industry Research
Project, which was concerned with the development of improved design methods for …

A constitutive model is developed for the complex rheology of rate-independent granular
materials. The closures for the pressure and the macroscopic friction coefficient are linked to …