Discrete element modelling of railway ballast under monotonic and cyclic triaxial loading

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 459-467

  Lu, M ^a   McDowell, G R ^b  

^a GL Nobel Denton   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deformation; Numerical modelling; Particle crushing crushability

Indexed keywords

CONFINING PRESSURES; CYCLIC CONDITIONS; CYCLIC LOADINGS; CYCLIC TRIAXIAL TESTS; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELLING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MICRO-MECHANICAL; MONOTONIC LOADING; MONOTONIC TESTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARALLEL BONDS; PERMANENT STRAIN; RAILWAY BALLASTS; STRESS CONDITION; TRIAXIAL LOADING; VOLUMETRIC STRAIN;

ABRASION; DEFORMATION; LOADING; RAILROADS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRAIN;

INTERLOCKING SIGNALS;

ABRASION; ASPERITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINING PRESSURE; CRUSHING; CYCLIC LOADING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 77953515191     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2010.60.6.459     Document Type: Article

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