DEM simulations of thermally activated creep in soils

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 425-433

  Kwok, C Y ^a,b   Bolton, M D ^b  

^a ITASCA CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creep; Numerical modelling; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

AXIAL STRAIN; CONTACT FRICTION; CREEP FAILURE; CREEP RATES; CREEP STRAIN RATE; DEM SIMULATION; DEVIATORIC STRESS; DEVIATORIC STRESS RATIO; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELLING; INTERFACIAL COEFFICIENT; INTERGRANULAR CONTACTS; LINEAR SPRING; MOBILISATION; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RATE PROCESS THEORIES; SLIDING VELOCITIES; SOIL STIFFNESS; SPHERICAL GRAINS; TEST DATA; THERMALLY ACTIVATED CREEP;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ALGEBRA; CEMENTS; FRICTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOILS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN RATE;

CREEP;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CLAY SOIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; DILATANCY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SANDY SOIL; STRAIN RATE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953516298     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2010.60.6.425     Document Type: Article

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