A microstructural elastoplastic model for unsaturated granular materials

DOI10.1016/J.IJSOLSTR.2006.07.007MaRDI QIDQ2382571zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Yves Hicher, Ching S. Chang

Publication date 9 October 2007

Published in International Journal of Solids and Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.07.007

zbMATH Keywords

capilary forceshomogenizationstress-strain relationship

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Small-strain, rate-independent theories of plasticity (including rigid-plastic and elasto-plastic materials) (74C05) Granularity (74E20)

Review text

A homogenization technique is used to obtain an elastoplastic stress-strain relationship for dry, saturated and unsaturated granular materials. The elastic part is based on Hertz-Mindlin contact formulation, while the plastic part is based on Mohr-Coulomb friction law with an isotropic hardening assumption and non-associated flow rule. Only a limited number of parameters are necessary. For constant water content the results show an increase in mechanical properties whenever the degree of saturation decreases. Also the collapse of an unsaturated specimen could be obtained during wetting. The tensor is isotropic and can be reduced to a capillary pressure. The stress tensor can be obtained by adding the total stress and capillary stress tensor. The comparison with experimental results is good.

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