Fractured-rock aquifers display spatially and temporally variable hydraulic conductivity generally attributed to variable fracture intensity and connectivity. Empirical evidence suggests fracture aperture and hydraulic conductivity are sensitive to in situ stress. This study investigates the sensitivity of fractured-rock hydraulic conductivity, groundwater flow paths, and advectiondominated tra...

We have conducted highP-Tsynchrotron X-ray and time-of-flight neutron diffraction experiments as well as indentation measurements to study equation of state, constitutive properties, and hardness of nanocrystalline and bulk nickel. Our lattice volume-pressure data present a clear evidence of elastic softening in nanocrystalline Ni as compared with the bulk nickel. We show that the enhanced over...

In the search for high-energy density materials for Li-ion batteries, silicon has emerged as a promising candidate for anodes due to its ability to absorb a large number of Li atoms. Lithiation of Si leads to large deformation and concurrent changes in its mechanical properties, from a brittle material in its pure form to a material that can sustain large inelastic deformation in the lithiated ...

We study the scalar elasto-plastic model in two (2d) and three dimensions (3d) under the presence of an imposed shear-rate, following the modifications proposed by Nicolas et al. [1] to the model of Picard and coworkers [2, 3]. An amorphous system is represented by a coarsegrained scalar field σ(r, t), denoting the instantaneous deviatoric shear stress of the system at spatial position r and ti...

This paper proposes a novel way to solve transient linear, and non-linear solid dynamics for compressible, nearly incompressible, incompressible material in the updated Lagrangian framework tetrahedral unstructured finite elements. It consists of mixed formulation both displacement pressure, where momentum equation continuum is complemented with pressure that handles incompresibility inherently...

Abstract The triaxial mechanical properties of hybrid basalt–polypropylene fibre-reinforced concrete (HBPRC) were investigated in detail. different effects micro-basalt fibre (BF) and micro-polypropylene (PF) on the revealed. strength criterion for HBPRC was established. results showed that hydrostatic behaviour, volumetric strain, peak deviatoric stress, elastic modulus, Poisson’s ratio are af...

Direct numerical simulation data bases for compressible homogeneous shear ow are used to evaluate the performance of recently proposed Reynolds stress closures for compressible turbulence. Three independent pressure-strain models are considered along with a variety of explicit compressible corrections that account for dilatational dissipation and pressure-dilatation e ects. The ability of the m...

The aim of this paper is to provide a general procedure to extract the constitutive parameters of a plasticity model starting from displacement measurements and using the Virtual Fields Method. This is a classical inverse problem which has been already investigated in the literature, however several new features are developed here. First of all the procedure applies to a general three-dimension...

The physical mechanism of the anthropogenic triggering of large earthquakes on active faults is studied on the basis of experimental phenomenology, i.e., that earthquakes occur on active tectonic faults, that crustal stress values are those measured in situ and, on active faults, comply to the values of the stress drop measured for real earthquakes, that the static friction coefficients are tho...

The excavation of tunnels in brittle rocks with high in-situ strengths under large deviatoric stresses has been shown to exhibit failure at the periphery parallel maximum stress. This can either occur instantaneously or after several hours due strength degradation that is implicitly and indirectly considered typical constitutive models. While these models are powerful tools for engineering anal...