An advanced Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approach to melting and solidification coupled with mechanics is developed. It is based on the concept of a coherent solid-liquid interface with a transformation strain tensor, the deviatoric part of which is described by a thermodynamically consistent kinetic equation. Due to the relaxation of the elastic energy, a promoting contribution to the driving force fo...

This paper presents a novel apparatus, combined with application of the Virtual Fields Method (VFM) for high frequency characterisation mechanical response ultra-soft materials. The viscoelastic is characterised under harmonic deviatoric loading at range frequencies using dynamic VFM in domain. Obtaining useful rate data on soft materials challenging typical test methodologies, as low speed sou...

A growth spin model is proposed for the modelling of expansive and fibre remodelling cell wall. The introduction allows to relax perfectly bonding assumption in kinematical growth, which provides a more sophisticated flexible description selective control regulation anisotropic growth. Extended hardening laws are remodelling, respectively, aiming at further clarification dynamic balance between...

Cyclic loading–induced deformation of soil is a common problem in engineering practice. In current practice, however, monotonic triaxial tests are more commonly used due to the availability apparatus and ease operation. Thus, it would be very useful practical if could evaluate behavior under cyclic loading. This study aims find an explicit relationship between saturated soft clay. Six nine comp...

The new Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) uses the subgrade resilient modulus (MR) as key input parameter to represent soil behavior for pavement design. increases with an increase in confining pressure, whereas, deviatoric stress, it granular soils and decreases fine-grained soils. value of MR is highly stress dependent, state (i.e., bulk stress) a function position materials...

We point out that the minimal components of tensorial moments distribution can be independently relaxed in collision without violating rotational symmetry are its irreducible representation (irrep) SO(3), and a generic multiple-relaxation-time model constructed by relaxing these components. As simplest example irreps second moment traceless deviatoric stress an isotropic tensor which is conserv...

Earthquakes are feared because they often strike so suddenly. Yet, there are innumerable reports of preearthquake signals. Widespread disagreement exists in the geoscience community how these signals can be generated in the Earth’s crust and whether they are early warning signs, related to the build-up of tectonic stresses before major seismic events. Progress in understanding and eventually us...