High-cycle shakedown, ratcheting and liquefaction behavior of anisotropic granular material with fabric evolution: experiments and constitutive modelling

Y Hong, X Wang, L Wang, G Kang, Z Gao - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although the mechanical response of granular materials strongly depends on the interplay
between their anisotropic internal structure (fabric) and loading direction, such coupling is …

Effect of fabric anisotropy on the cyclic liquefaction of sands: Insight from DEM simulations

A Zhang, M Jiang, D Wang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
To interpret the effects of fabric anisotropy on the cyclic liquefaction of sands, undrained
cyclic triaxial tests on the vertical and horizontal specimens were simulated using the …

Effect of particle shape on cyclic liquefaction resistance of granular materials

SK Banerjee, M Yang, M Taiebat - Acta Geotechnica, 2024 - Springer
This study adopts three-dimensional discrete element method to examine how particle
shape affects the cyclic liquefaction resistance of granular materials. A family of …

Liquefaction of granular materials in constant-volume cyclic shearing: Transition between solid-like and fluid-like states

M Yang, M Taiebat, F Radjaï - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
By means of 3D-DEM cyclic simple shear simulations at constant volume, this paper
analyzes the evolution of the internal structure during cyclic liquefaction of dense granular …

On the influence of cyclic preloadings on the liquefaction resistance of sands: A numerical study

J Duque, M Tafili, D Mašín - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil deposits may be subjected to preloading episodes due to different factors such as
previous earthquakes, excavations, refilling, compaction, construction of overlying …

Hypoplastic model with fabric change effect and semifluidized state for post‐liquefaction cyclic behavior of sand

D Liao, Z Yang, S Wang, W Wu - International Journal for …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presented the formulation of a novel hypoplastic model for sand considering both
the cyclic mobility and large accumulative shear deformation in the post‐liquefaction stage …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling of shakedown, ratcheting and liquefaction of saturated granular soils using kinematic hardening with memory surface

L Chen, J Ghorbani, J Kodikara - Computers and Geotechnics, 2024 - Elsevier
The present paper proposes a kinematic hardening model with a memory surface to more
accurately reproduce cyclic hardening and the behaviour of saturated granular soils …

Numerical modeling of soil liquefaction and lateral spreading using the SANISAND-Sf model in the LEAP experiments

A Reyes, M Yang, AR Barrero, M Taiebat - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2021 - Elsevier
Laboratory element and centrifuge tests from LEAP-UCD-2017 and LEAP-Asia-2019 were
used for model calibration and evaluation in a dynamic coupled analysis of a saturated and …

Evolution of granular materials under isochoric cyclic simple shearing

M Yang, M Taiebat, P Mutabaruka, F Radjai - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
By means of 3D particle dynamics simulations, we analyze the microstructure of granular
materials subjected to isochoric (constant volume) cyclic shearing, which drives the system …

Investigating the influence of inherent soil fabrics on reliquefaction resistance of sands using DEM-clump simulation

S Yang, D Huang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Inherent fabrics exist in natural soils during deposition. After applying stresses, inherent
fabrics in soils are altered due to the rearrangement of soil particles, which gives rise to …