... the prediction of irreversible pile settlement, which is primarily attributed to the accumulation of volumetric contraction in the surrounding soil after each thermal cycle. The analysis also distinguishes between drag down effects resulting from thermo-elastic and thermo-plastic behaviour, as well as those...

... of smooth-sphere DEM simulations to correctly capture the stress dependence of the elastic moduli of soil. This hypothesis was investigated using the finite-element method. At low-to-moderate confining stresses, the Poisson effect has little influence on the response. The Poisson effect becomes significant...

... + Y ¯ 3 C 3 + f p 28 09 2020 13 01 2021 08 02 2021 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2021 elasticity piles & piling soil/structure interaction In structural engineering, the use of flexibility and stiffness matrix methods to analyse...

...Y. Wang; M. J. Cassidy; B. Bienen Foundations are commonly situated on layered soil deposits, where the elastic stiffnesses may differ from values calculated using solutions for single-layer elastic media. This paper reports elastic stiffness coefficients for a rigid circular footing subjected...

...M. Tiennot; J. Fortin Long-term behaviour of a clay-bearing sandstone is investigated using elastic waves propagation coupled with strain measurements during moisture cycles. Adsorption and desorption are followed in a continuous way during several variations of relative humidity. Moisture...

... by the compatibility equation. The macroscopic stress Σ can be obtained by averaging the local stress field σ over the unit cell. Moulinec & Suquet (1994) introduced a reference elastic homogeneous material of stiffness tensor ℂ⁰ and a polarisation tensor τ ( x ) = ( C ( x...

...% of axial strain: (a) tension (b) compression 02 05 2019 26 09 2019 27 09 2019 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2019 discrete-element modelling elasticity geosynthetics The use of recycled tyres in geotechnical applications has become increasingly popular. Waste...

... as indicated in Fig. 2(a) . The higher is the moisture level, the larger is the angle α between the fracture surface and the specimen axis. deformation elasticity failure radioactive waste disposal rocks/rock mechanics The geological disposal is considered as one of the feasible...

...N. C. Consoli; D. Foppa The adequacy of the porosity/cement ratio in predicting elastic and plastic characteristics of an artificially cemented soil under isotropic compression is examined. A number of isotropic compression tests, unconfined compression tests and characterisation tests were carried...

... floc compression. From equation (2) , E* is the initial linear slope, or Hertzian elastic contact line, of the compression curve in a plot of (3P/D^{1/2) versus d3/2 and the state at which the curve deviates from the elastic contact line marks}...

... a link between the evolving microstructure (i.e. particle size geometry) and a chemical state variable. The mechanical implications at the continuum scale are finally derived through statistical homogenisation. The results disclose a relation between the evolution of the elastic properties...