Mechanics of materials with microstructure. (I). Granular and cracked materials.

Mathematics and mechanics of granular materials

Behavior of cracked materials

Abstract. Due to their microstructure, quasi brittle materials present rough cracks. Under sliding of the crack lips, this roughness involves in one hand induced opening and in the other hand some apparent plasticity which is due to the interlocking of the crack lips combined with Coulomb’s friction. The proposed model is written under the irreversible thermodynamics framework. Micromechanics u...

morphology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and micromorphology of soils of hormozgan province in relation to parent materials

ویژگی های زمین شیمیایی، کانی شناسی، و میکرومورفولوژیکی خاک ها و سنگ مادر مربوطه در منطقه بین بخش های جنوبی زاگرس و خلیج فارس تا دریای عمان(استان هرمزگان، ایران) مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. هدف های این مطالعه شناسایی تغییرات در خصوصیات فیزیکی، شیمیایی، و ترکیب کانی شناسی خاک، مطالعه میکرومورفولوژی و تکامل خاک، و بررسی توزیع عنصر خاک بر اساس هوازدگی، پروسه های خاک و زمین شناسی جهت توصیف اثرات مواد مادر...

Exploring the micro - mechanics of triaxial instability in granular materials

14 The instability of granular materials due to water infiltration under fully drained conditions has been 15 previously considered in experimental studies. While laboratory experiments can provide macro-scale 16 insight into drained instability, the micro-mechanics under such conditions are yet to be explored. 17 This study has employed the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to simulate constant sh...

Gravity and Granular Materials

We describe experiments that probe a number of different types of granular flow where either gravity is effectively eliminated or it is modulated in time. These experiments Include the shaking of granular materials both vertically and horizontally, and the shearing of a 2D granular material. For the shaken system, we identify interesting dynamical phenomena and relate them to standard simple fr...