The effect of local kinematics on the local and global deformations of granular systems

Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-41

  Tordesillas, Antoinette ^a   Walsh, Stuart D C ^a   Muthuswamy, Maya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Granular media; Micropolar; Nonaffine deformation; Strain

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL COMPRESSION; CURVATURE MEASURES; DEFORMATION HISTORY; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CONTINUUM; FORCE CHAINS; GLOBAL DEFORMATIONS; GRANULAR ASSEMBLY; GRANULAR MEDIA; GRANULAR SYSTEM; MACROSCOPIC STRAINS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROPOLAR; MICROPOLAR CONTINUUM; NON-AFFINE DEFORMATION; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PARTICLE ROTATIONS; RELATIVE MOTION; SHEAR BANDING; STRAIN FIELDS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; GRANULAR MATERIALS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 77649206967     PISSN: 10812865     EISSN: 17413028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081286508089844     Document Type: Article

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