...-element method (FEM), the predicted strain localisation and lateral deformation are mesh-size dependent. In this study, the non-local peridynamics theory is introduced as a novel regularisation technique for modelling such a phenomenon. The computational model is based on coupling the non-ordinary state...

...; and (iii) co-transport of the detached particles by the piping flow. These processes labelled (i) to (iii) are shown in Fig. 1 . Fig. 1. Illustration of: (a) swelling and piping-assisted erosion; (b) peridynamic (PD) representation of interactions and processes The continuum and PD...

... to investigate the shear behaviour of crushable granular sand under general stress conditions with varying intermediate principal stresses and confining pressures. The computational approach features multi-scale coupling between non-smooth contact dynamics and peridynamics, and offers a rigorous way to consider...

... is based on peridynamics (PD) theory. Attempts to model soil desiccation cracking by PD are limited to a purely mechanical description of the process that involves calibration of the parameters. In contrast, the model presented in this paper describes soil desiccation cracking as a hydro-mechanical problem...