Abstract: While laboratory evidence suggests that particle crushing generates nonnegligible rate-dependence in granular materials, few constitutive laws reproduce such effects in light of grain-scale fracture mechanisms. This paper ...

Abstract: The liquefaction of sediments with gas bubbles occluded in the pore fluid can be studied neither through classical methods for saturated soils nor through concepts valid for unsaturated soils with continuous fluid phases. ...

Abstract: The size-dependent strength of individual particles controls several key aspects of the constitutive response of brittle granular materials. Capturing this factor in numerical analyses is essential to accurately model the ...

Abstract: Recent interpretations of wetting-induced compaction revealed that water sensitivity can cause a loss of controllability in samples subjected to fluid injection. This paper elaborates these findings by focusing on fabric ...

Abstract: A general framework is proposed to incorporate rate and time effects into bounding surface (BS) plasticity models. For this purpose, the elasto-viscoplasticity (EVP) overstress theory is combined with bounding surface ...

Abstract: This paper reports a series of experiments aimed at studying the effect of grain crushing on the water retention capacity of granular soils. Specimens of granular materials have been subjected to oedometric compression at ...