Evolution of force chains in shear bands in sands

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 343-351

  Rechenmacher, A ^a   Abedi, S ^a   Chupin, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Laboratoire Central des Fonts et Chaussées   (France)

Author keywords

Deformation; Failure; Laboratory tests; Sands; Strain localization

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL STATE; DEFORMATION FIELD; DIGITAL IMAGE; DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FAILURE; FORCE CHAINS; GEOMECHANICS; LABORATORY TESTS; LOCAL VOLUME CHANGE; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE FEATURES; NONUNIFORM; PARTICLE FORCES; PLANE STRAIN COMPRESSION; POST-PEAK; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE; STRAIN LOCALIZATION; STRESS-STRAIN RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; SHEAR BANDS;

SAND;

CRITICAL STATE; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; SAND; SHEAR BAND; SOFTENING; SOIL MECHANICS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 77956261614     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2010.60.5.343     Document Type: Article

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