New Ways to Represent Interparticle Forces as Effective Stresses in a Macroscopic Continuum
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 17, Issue 9
Abstract
This paper presents a simple proof of an initially counterintuitive result that the interparticle effective forces in a particulate aggregate can be meaningfully represented using an infinite number of uniaxial stress tensors. The result is shown to be consistent with previous work in particle mechanics. It does not imply that constitutive behaviors are combinations of uniaxial behaviors. A further level of sophisticated continuum approximation is also identified. Some implications for constitutive modeling are discussed.
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International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 17 • Issue 9 • September 2017
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Received: Aug 15, 2016
Accepted: Feb 21, 2017
Published online: Jun 5, 2017
Published in print: Sep 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Nov 5, 2017
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