Influence of micromaterial heterogeneity on strain localization in granular materials

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 248-259

  Alsaleh, Mustafa I ^a   Alshibli, Khalid A ^b   Voyiadjis, George Z ^c  

^a CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Geotechnical models; Granular materials; Heterogeneity; Micromechanics; Numerical analysis; Sand

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COSSERAT CONTINUUM; LADE'S CONSTITUTIVE MODEL; MICROMATERIAL HETEROGENEITY; STRAIN LOCALIZATION;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MICROMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAND;

EID: 33746047638     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2006)6:4(248)     Document Type: Article

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