... with the Gauss quadrature points of the FEM mesh. Numerical simulations proposed by the authors indicate that this multiscale approach is capable of replicating the evolution of cavity pressure during cavity expansion – before and after the onset of strain localisation – in qualitative agreement with laboratory...

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.... , Catalano   E. , Chareyre   B. . The Yade project, , 2010 , 1st edn See http://yade-dem.org/doc/ (accessed 10/08/2013) . laboratory tests sands strain localisation Figure 1 Laboratoire 3SR x-ray scanner. The background is faded out for clarity; blue edges visible left and right...

...J. Fonseca; P. Bésuelle; G. Viggiani This study investigates the grain-scale mechanisms that lead to failure by strain localisation in specimens of Fontainebleau sandstone with different degrees of cementation. While the effects of inter-particle bonding on the mechanical behaviour of granular...

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... Wood, 2002) fabric/structure of soils laboratory tests model tests particle-scale behaviour sands strain localisation Roscoe spent the whole of his research career in soil mechanics searching for the ideal laboratory apparatus with which to discover the real behaviour of soils. He...

... reserved 2012 constitutive relations finite-element modelling numerical modelling strain localisation In geomaterials, localised failure leads to intensive deformation and irreversible micro-structural changes of the material in a small but finite size region. Shear, compaction...

... and the sediment strains accordingly. 24 2 2011 14 4 2011 17 10 2011 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2011 failure numerical modelling strain localisation Soil grains are displaced as open-mode discontinuities develop. This implies unbalanced particle-level forces...

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