Stability of Granular Materials in Postpeak Softening Regime
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 119, Issue 1
Abstract
Triaxial compression tests on sand have been performed to study stability and plastic yielding in the postpeak softening regime. Softening occurs in dense sand sheared at low confining pressure. The experiments show that the stability postulates by Drucker and by Hill are not applicable to sand in the softening regime. Plastic yielding, as well as elastic behavior, can occur along the same stress paths, and plastic strains may be obtained along stress paths with increasing, constant, and decreasing stress differences. Granular materials, in which softening occurs, can go through peak failure more than once. The behavior is entirely controlled by the type of volume change exhibited by the granular material and by the drainage conditions imposed on the material. A yield surface of the conventional type cannot be employed in the softening regime. The yield surface is more likely to take the form of a barrier or fence.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 119 • Issue 1 • January 1993
Pages: 128 - 144
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Copyright © 1993 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Feb 13, 1992
Published online: Jan 1, 1993
Published in print: Jan 1993
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