A Two Yielding Surface Elasto-Plastic Model with Consideration of Grain Breakage
Publication: Soil Behavior and Geo-Micromechanics
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An elasto-plastic model with two yield surfaces has been developed for the simulation of granular materials with consideration of grain ruptures. Grain breakage is induced by deviatoric as well as isotropic stresses. One yield function is based on a Mohr-Coulomb criterion with a hyperbolic hardening function of the plastic deviatoric strain. A second yield function is introduced to describe the plastic behaviour under compression, in which a hardening function of the plastic volumetric strain is introduced. The main assumption of this model is that, upon loading, the position of the critical state changes as a consequence of grain breakage. The effect of the grain size distribution is introduced in the relationship between the void ratio at critical state and the mean effective stress. Triaxial and oedometer tests have been performed on crushable granular materials. Comparison of experimental results and numerical simulations shows that the new model can reproduce with good accuracy the behaviour of granular materials subjected to grain ruptures during mechanical loading.
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© 2010 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Continuum mechanics
- Deformation (mechanics)
- Elastoplasticity
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Engineering mechanics
- Grain (material)
- Granular materials
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Model accuracy
- Models (by type)
- Numerical models
- Plastics
- Simulation models
- Solid mechanics
- Structural mechanics
- Synthetic materials
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