Dynamic interaction of multiple shear bands

Propagation of Adiabatic Shear Bands

Fluid depletion in shear bands.

How does pore liquid reconfigure within shear bands in wet granular media? Conventional wisdom predicts that liquid is drawn into dilating granular media. We, however, find a depletion of liquid in shear bands despite increased porosity due to dilatancy. This apparent paradox is resolved by a microscale model for liquid transport at low liquid contents induced by rupture and reconfiguration of ...

Formation and Development of Shear Bands inGranular

A system of equations modeling antiplane shear in a granular material is considered. The model includes the possibility of localization of strain, and the subsequent development of shear bands. This behavior is captured in our analysis of the Riemann initial value problem, in which an initial discontinuity propagates as a combination of moving waves and a stationary shear band. The analysis is ...

Simulation of shear bands using polygonal particles

The choice of particle shape representation is critical in the accuracy of the simulations of real granular materials. Here we present a method to simulate particle shape using polygonal particles. The method reproduces shear bands using different boundary conditions: confining walls, floppy boundaries and periodic boundary conditions.

The genesis of adiabatic shear bands

Adiabatic shear banding (ASB) is a unique dynamic failure mechanism that results in an unpredicted catastrophic failure due to a concentrated shear deformation mode. It is universally considered as a material or structural instability and as such, ASB is hardly controllable or predictable to some extent. ASB is modeled on the premise of stability analyses. The leading paradigm is that a competi...