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DEM simulations of undrained triaxial behavior of granular material / Guobin Gong in Journal of engineering mechanics, Vol. 138 N° 6 (Juin 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 138 N° 6 (Juin 2012) . - pp.560-566 Titre : DEM simulations of undrained triaxial behavior of granular material Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Guobin Gong, Auteur ; Colin Thornton, Auteur ; Andrew H. C. Chan, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : pp.560-566 Note générale : Mécanique appliquée Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Discrete  element  method  Coordination  number  Liquefaction  Stress  path  Strain  rate Résumé : The paper presents results of three-dimensional discrete element method (DEM) simulations of axisymmetric undrained tests on loose assemblies of polydisperse spheres using a periodic cell. In the work reported, undrained tests were modeled by deforming the samples under constant volume conditions. The undrained (effective) stress paths are shown to be qualitatively similar to published physical experimental results. The onset of liquefaction (or temporary liquefaction) is identified by a redundancy index equal to unity, which defines the transition from solidlike to liquidlike behavior. This corresponds to a critical mechanical coordination number slightly in excess of 4. The results of the simulations also suggest that a reversal in the direction of the undrained stress path does not necessarily indicate temporary liquefaction. The undrained behavior obtained by the DEM simulations is found to be dependent on strain rate and the so-called temporary liquefaction phenomenon is only observed if the strain rate is sufficiently high. ISSN : 0733-9399 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EM.1943-7889.0000366 [article] DEM simulations of undrained triaxial behavior of granular material [texte imprimé] / Guobin Gong, Auteur ; Colin Thornton, Auteur ; Andrew H. C. Chan, Auteur . - 2012 . - pp.560-566. Mécanique appliquée Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 138 N° 6 (Juin 2012) . - pp.560-566 Mots-clés : Discrete  element  method  Coordination  number  Liquefaction  Stress  path  Strain  rate Résumé : The paper presents results of three-dimensional discrete element method (DEM) simulations of axisymmetric undrained tests on loose assemblies of polydisperse spheres using a periodic cell. In the work reported, undrained tests were modeled by deforming the samples under constant volume conditions. The undrained (effective) stress paths are shown to be qualitatively similar to published physical experimental results. The onset of liquefaction (or temporary liquefaction) is identified by a redundancy index equal to unity, which defines the transition from solidlike to liquidlike behavior. This corresponds to a critical mechanical coordination number slightly in excess of 4. The results of the simulations also suggest that a reversal in the direction of the undrained stress path does not necessarily indicate temporary liquefaction. The undrained behavior obtained by the DEM simulations is found to be dependent on strain rate and the so-called temporary liquefaction phenomenon is only observed if the strain rate is sufficiently high. ISSN : 0733-9399 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EM.1943-7889.0000366