On the evolution of stress and microstructure during general 3D deviatoric straining of granular media

By C. Thornton, L. Zhang. 2010

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A virtual experiment technique on the elementary behaviour of granular materials with discrete element method (2013, background): “Some DEM simulations [7, 18, 25, 26] use granular particles as boundaries.”
Strong force networks in granular mixtures (2014, methodology): “To study the contribution of the individual contact forces to the overall stress tensor of the whole system, we applied the formulation of the ensemble average stress tensor [8] σi j as:”
A critical state sand plasticity model accounting for fabric evolution (2014, background): “[25–29]; see also [30]) and thus a fabric tensor at continuum level can be concretely linked to specific microstructural statistics.”
The influence of inter-particle friction and the intermediate stress ratio on soil response under generalised stress conditions (2012, result): “Previous DEM simulations by Ng [1] Thornton [2] and Thornton and Zhang [3] also showed agreement with the Lade and Duncan failure criterion.”
Stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials: fabric, stiffness, and permeability (2015, background): “For sphere assemblies, the deviatoric part of the fabric tensor F c-strong correlates closely with deviatoric stress, a trend noted in [71,20].”