The influence of the stress-strain behavior of non-cohesive soils on the geometry of shear band systems under extensional strain

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1760-1773

  Wolf, H ^a   Konig D ^a   Triantafyllidis, Th ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital Image Correlation (DIC); Radiography; Shear band spacing; Triaxial extension tests

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); RADIOGRAPHY; SAND; STRAIN; STRESSES;

DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION; EXTENSIONAL STRAIN; SHEAR BAND SPACING; TRIAXIAL EXTENSION TESTS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

DEFORMATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); RADIOGRAPHY; SAND; SOIL MECHANICS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

GEOMETRY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SHEAR BAND; SOIL; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 33750608339     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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