Formulation of Cross-Anisotropic Failure Criterion for Granular Material
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Volume 12, Issue 2
Abstract
The failure anisotropy of geomaterial is inherently related to the microstructure such as grain arrangement, bedding, and crack pattern. This paper presents a formulation of an anisotropic failure criterion in three-dimensional (3D) stress space on the basis of the combination of the SMP criterion and a material microstructure tensor proposed in previous publications. The criterion is specialized for cross-anisotropic granular-material based on the loading direction and the direction of material bedding determined by two angles in 3D stress space. Consequently, it can describe the variation of strength resulting from the changing of the direction of material bedding and the changing of the stress state. Furthermore, the proposed criterion can capture the cross-anisotropic strength behavior of granular materials, which is concluded from the comparisons between its predicted and relevant experimental results.
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Acknowledgments
The authors appreciate the supports of the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar (Grant No. 50825901), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2010B15014) and Jiangsu Civil Engineering Graduate Center for Innovation and Academic Communication Foundation.
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International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 12 • Issue 2 • April 2012
Pages: 182 - 188
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© 2012. American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Oct 12, 2010
Accepted: Apr 14, 2011
Published online: Apr 15, 2011
Published in print: Apr 1, 2012
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