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Mechanisms of small-strain shear-modulus anisotropy in soils / Y. H. Wang in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Vol. 134 N°10 (Octobre 2008) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 134 N°10 (Octobre 2008) . - pp. 1516–1530 Titre : Mechanisms of small-strain shear-modulus anisotropy in soils Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Y. H. Wang, Auteur ; C. M. Mok, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 1516–1530 Note générale : Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Shear  modulus  Anisotropy  Soil  structures  Stiffness  Contact  pressure Résumé : In this paper, experimental studies using a true triaxial apparatus and a bender element system, and numerical simulations based on the discrete element method (DEM) were used to investigate the stress- and fabric-induced shear-stiffness anisotropy in soils at small strains. Verified by experiments and DEM simulations, the shear modulus was found to be relatively independent of the out-of-plane stress component, which can be revealed by the indistinctive change in the contact normal distribution and the normal contact forces on that plane in the DEM simulations. Simulation and experimental results also demonstrated that the shear modulus is equally contributed by the two principal stress components on the associated shearing planes. Fabric-induced stiffness anisotropy, i.e., the highest Gxy or Ghh , can be explained by simulation findings in which more contact normals prefer to distribute along the horizontal direction. The experiments and simulations also reveal that the fabric-induced stiffness anisotropy increases with an increasing aspect ratio of the particles. The assumption of transversely isotropic fabric in soils is valid based on the DEM simulation results; however, this assumption is not completely supported by the experimental results. En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A10%281 [...] [article] Mechanisms of small-strain shear-modulus anisotropy in soils [texte imprimé] / Y. H. Wang, Auteur ; C. M. Mok, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 1516–1530. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 134 N°10 (Octobre 2008) . - pp. 1516–1530 Mots-clés : Shear  modulus  Anisotropy  Soil  structures  Stiffness  Contact  pressure Résumé : In this paper, experimental studies using a true triaxial apparatus and a bender element system, and numerical simulations based on the discrete element method (DEM) were used to investigate the stress- and fabric-induced shear-stiffness anisotropy in soils at small strains. Verified by experiments and DEM simulations, the shear modulus was found to be relatively independent of the out-of-plane stress component, which can be revealed by the indistinctive change in the contact normal distribution and the normal contact forces on that plane in the DEM simulations. Simulation and experimental results also demonstrated that the shear modulus is equally contributed by the two principal stress components on the associated shearing planes. Fabric-induced stiffness anisotropy, i.e., the highest Gxy or Ghh , can be explained by simulation findings in which more contact normals prefer to distribute along the horizontal direction. The experiments and simulations also reveal that the fabric-induced stiffness anisotropy increases with an increasing aspect ratio of the particles. The assumption of transversely isotropic fabric in soils is valid based on the DEM simulation results; however, this assumption is not completely supported by the experimental results. En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A10%281 [...]