On the capillary stress tensor in wet granular materials

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1289-1313

  Scholtes L ^a   Hicher, P Y ^b   Nicot, F ^c   Chareyre, Bruno ^a   Darve, F ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN GÉNIE CIVIL ET MÉCANIQUE GEM   (France)

^c Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Capillary forces; DEM; Granular materials; Micromechanics; Microstructure; Unsaturated

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; ELASTOPLASTICITY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; MICROMECHANICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; TENSORS;

CAPILLARY FORCE; EQUIVALENT PORE PRESSURE; HOMOGENIZATION TECHNIQUES; MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC; MICROSTRUCTURAL PHENOMENON; PORE FLUID DISTRIBUTION; TRI-AXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS; UNSATURATED;

STRESSES;

COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MICROMECHANICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PORE PRESSURE; SOIL MECHANICS; STRESS; TRIAXIAL TEST; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 70349649799     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.767     Document Type: Article

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