Micromechanics of granular materials with capillary effects

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-75

  Scholtes L ^a   Chareyre, B ^a   Nicot, F ^b   Darve, F ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Discrete element method; Micromechanics; Shear strength; Unsaturated granular media

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CAPILLARITY; COMPRESSION TESTING; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MICROMECHANICS; SHEAR STRENGTH;

DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; GRANULAR MEDIA; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MACROSCOPIC CONSEQUENCES; MICROMECHANICS OF GRANULAR MATERIALS; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; STRENGTH PROPERTY; TRI-AXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 57649085813     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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