Abstract: The development of localized strains (shear banding) in soils near peak stress levels and the subsequent continued deformation within shear bands during observed softening render important issues such as critical state ...

Abstract: Shear banding, the localization of deformation into thin zones of intense shearing, is a phenomenon commonly observed in soils, yet it is still poorly understood. Stereophotogrammetry was used to study the deformation in ...

Abstract: A combined fabric evolution (CFE) model is used to predict real-world fabric evolution of a strongly anisometric granular material under triaxial loading, connecting advances in theoretical developments and experimental ...

Abstract: Experimental results are presented that characterize the behavior of a loose, fine-grained, water-saturated sand tested under globally undrained conditions is a plane strain apparatus. Together with local measurements of ...