Computational models for failure in cohesive-frictional materials with stochastically distributed imperfections | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The finite element reliability method | p. 2 |
Introduction to the reliability method | p. 2 |
Discretisation of the material properties | p. 4 |
Response as a function of the imperfections | p. 4 |
Approximation of the probability of failure | p. 6 |
Computation of the ß-points | p. 8 |
Computation of the mechanical transformation | p. 9 |
Computation of the equilibrium path | p. 9 |
Computation of the gradient of the equilibrium path | p. 12 |
Numerical simulation | p. 13 |
Conclusions | p. 15 |
References | p. 15 |
Modelling of localized damage and fracture in quasibrittle materials | p. 17 |
Representation of localized deformation | p. 17 |
Kinematic description | p. 17 |
Constitutive models | p. 19 |
Numerical approximations | p. 21 |
Combined continuous-discontinuous description | p. 22 |
Elements with embedded localization zones | p. 23 |
Motivation | p. 23 |
Low-order elements | p. 25 |
Higher-order elements | p. 26 |
Enriched elements | p. 27 |
Concluding remarks | p. 28 |
References | p. 29 |
Microplane modelling and particle modelling of cohesive-frictional materials | p. 31 |
Motivation | p. 31 |
Continuum-based microplane models | p. 32 |
Microplane elasticity | p. 34 |
Microplane elasto-plasticity | p. 36 |
Example | p. 37 |
Discrete particle models | p. 38 |
Elastic particles | p. 39 |
Elasto-plastic particles | p. 41 |
Comparison | p. 43 |
Short-term creep of shotcrete-thermochemoplastic material modelling and nonlinear analysis of a laboratory test and of a NATM excavation by the Finite Element Method | p. 47 |
Introduction and motivation for the investigation of creep in shotcrete | p. 47 |
Thermochemoplastic material model for shotcrete | p. 48 |
State variables | p. 48 |
Field equations | p. 49 |
Heat conduction law | p. 49 |
Constitutive equations | p. 49 |
Algorithmic treatment of the incremental formulation for short-term creep | p. 52 |
Discretization of the evolution law for short-term creep | p. 52 |
Discretization of the incremental state equation for the stresses | p. 53 |
Numerical example: creep test with two instants of loading | p. 54 |
Re-analysis of a laboratory test | p. 55 |
Modelling | p. 55 |
Experimental determination of material properties | p. 55 |
Results | p. 57 |
Simulation of a tunnel driven according to the NATM | p. 58 |
Thermo-poro-mechanics of rapid fault shearing | p. 63 |
Introduction | p. 63 |
Formulation | p. 64 |
Mass balance | p. 64 |
Energy balance | p. 65 |
Momentum Balance | p. 66 |
The Mathematical Model | p. 68 |
Frictional shearing strain-rate softening | p. 72 |
A view on the variational setting of micropolar continua | p. 75 |
Introduction | p. 75 |
Geometrically linear micropolar continua | p. 76 |
Gradient type micropolar continuum | p. 77 |
Cosserat type micropolar continuum | p. 79 |
Mixed formulation gradient type case | p. 80 |
Regularized mixed formulation gradient type case | p. 81 |
Geometrically nonlinear micropolar continua | p. 82 |
Mixed formulation gradient type case | p. 83 |
Cosserat type micropolar continuum | p. 84 |
Regularized formulation gradient type case | p. 85 |
Conclusion | p. 87 |
Macromodelling of softening in non-cohesive soils | p. 89 |
Introduction | p. 89 |
Approach to friction softening | p. 90 |
Drucker-Prager model with local softening | p. 92 |
Necessity of regularization | p. 94 |
Nonlocal DP-model | p. 94 |
Internal length and numerical shear band thickness | p. 96 |
Empirical shear band thicknesses | p. 98 |
Softening scaling on h and l | p. 100 |
Hardening soil model | p. 102 |
HS-model with nonlocal softening | p. 104 |
Geometrical Nonlinearity | p. 106 |
Conclusions | p. 107 |
References | p. 108 |
An experimental investigation of the relationships between grain size distribution and shear banding in sand | p. 111 |
Introduction | p. 111 |
Experimental device and testing procedure | p. 113 |
Tested sands | p. 114 |
Experimental results | p. 117 |
Monodisperse sands | p. 119 |
Binary mixtures | p. 123 |
Discussion | p. 124 |
Conclusions | p. 126 |
References | p. 126 |
Micromechanics of the elastic behaviour of granular materials | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 129 |
Micromechanics | p. 130 |
Branch and polygon vector | p. 130 |
Stress, strain and work | p. 132 |
Group averaging | p. 132 |
Contact constitutive relation | p. 133 |
Extremum principles | p. 133 |
Statistical minimum potential energy theory | p. 134 |
Discrete Element simulations | p. 134 |
Particle size distribution | p. 135 |
Assemblies | p. 135 |
Discrete Element simulations | p. 135 |
Averaging | p. 136 |
Results from Discrete Element simulations | p. 136 |
Geometry | p. 137 |
Moduli | p. 138 |
Relative displacements | p. 138 |
Energy distribution | p. 140 |
References | p. 141 |
On sticky-sphere assemblies | p. 143 |
Cohesive materials | p. 144 |
Conclusions and recommendations | p. 147 |
References | p. 147 |
Cohesive granular texture | p. 149 |
Introduction | p. 149 |
Simple contact laws with adhesion | p. 150 |
Examples of observed behaviors | p. 156 |
References | p. 162 |
Micro-mechanisms of deformation in granular materials: experiments and numerical results | p. 163 |
Experimental results | p. 163 |
Experimental procedure | p. 163 |
Displacements field of rods centers | p. 164 |
Grains rotation | p. 166 |
Rolling without sliding | p. 166 |
Local deformation and shear band | p. 167 |
Numerical simulations | p. 168 |
Numerical simulations of biaxial tests | p. 169 |
Local mechanisms of deformation | p. 170 |
Numerical simulation of pull-out test | p. 170 |
Conclusion | p. 172 |
References | p. 172 |
Scaling properties of granular materials | p. 173 |
Introduction | p. 173 |
The normal force Fn | p. 174 |
Scaling properties | p. 175 |
Scaling large phenomena down to "lab-size" experiments | p. 177 |
Bouncing ball | p. 181 |
Consideration of the tangential force | p. 181 |
Conclusion | p. 183 |
References | p. 183 |
Discrete and continuum modelling of granular materials | p. 185 |
Introduction | p. 185 |
Formulation | p. 186 |
Continuum model | p. 186 |
Discrete element model | p. 189 |
Lagrangian particle method | p. 192 |
Lagrangian particles | p. 193 |
Numerical integration | p. 194 |
Element matrices and particle properties | p. 195 |
Particle splitting | p. 195 |
Element inverse mapping | p. 197 |
Examples | p. 198 |
DEM model simulating a triaxial compression test | p. 198 |
DEM model of granular flow | p. 199 |
LPM large deformation benchmark | p. 200 |
LPM model of discharging silo | p. 202 |
Concluding remarks | p. 203 |
References | p. 204 |
Difficulties and limitation of statistical homogenization in granular materials | p. 205 |
Definition of statistical homogenization in granular materials | p. 205 |
Static averaging operator | p. 206 |
Static localisation operator | p. 207 |
General formulation | p. 207 |
Analysis of the physical meanings of internal parameters and eij | p. 207 |
Analysis of the capacity of different localisation operators from a numerical simulation | p. 208 |
Kinematic averaging operator | p. 210 |
Kinematic localisation operator | p. 213 |
Conclusions | p. 214 |
References | p. 214 |
From discontinuous models towards a continuum description | p. 215 |
Introduction | p. 215 |
Model system and simulation | p. 216 |
The Couette shear-cell setup | p. 216 |
The discrete element model | p. 217 |
From the micro-to a macro-description | p. 218 |
Averaging strategy | p. 219 |
Averaging formalism | p. 219 |
Results on macroscopic scalar quantities | p. 220 |
Volume fraction | p. 220 |
Mass flux density | p. 220 |
Macroscopic tensorial quantities | p. 221 |
Fabric tensor | p. 221 |
Stress tensor | p. 223 |
Elastic deformation gradient | p. 223 |
Material properties | p. 223 |
Rotational degrees of freedom | p. 225 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 228 |
References | p. 229 |
From solids to granulates-Discrete element simulations of fracture and fragmentation processes in geomaterials | p. 231 |
Introduction | p. 231 |
Description of the model | p. 233 |
Granularity | p. 234 |
Elastic behaviour of the solid | p. 235 |
Breaking of the solid | p. 238 |
Stress calculation | p. 239 |
Simulation results | p. 239 |
Quasi-static loading scenarios | p. 240 |
Dynamic fragmentation of solids | p. 249 |
Conclusions | p. 256 |
References | p. 257 |
Microscopic modelling of granular materials taking into account particle rotations | p. 259 |
Introduction | p. 259 |
Kinematics | p. 261 |
Equations of motion | p. 262 |
Contact laws | p. 264 |
Numerical aspects | p. 268 |
Simulation examples and results | p. 269 |
Conclusions | p. 272 |
References | p. 273 |
Microstructured materials: local constitutive equation with internal lenght, theoretical and numerical studies | p. 275 |
Introduction | p. 275 |
A general theory for continua with microstructure | p. 276 |
Kinematic description of a continuum with microstructure | p. 276 |
The internal virtual work | p. 276 |
The external virtual work | p. 276 |
The balance equations and the boundary conditions | p. 277 |
Microstructured continuum with kinematic constraint: Second gradient models | p. 277 |
Equations of a second gradient model | p. 277 |
Local elasto-plastic second gradient models | p. 278 |
An application of local elasto-plastic second gradient model | p. 279 |
The problem to be solved | p. 279 |
Partial solutions | p. 280 |
Patch conditions and full solutions | p. 282 |
Discussion | p. 283 |
Equations with Lagrange multipliers | p. 284 |
Equations for the iterative procedure | p. 284 |
Finite Element Method | p. 286 |
Shape functions | p. 286 |
Element stiffness matrix | p. 287 |
Element residual terms | p. 288 |
Global matrices | p. 289 |
Applications: two dimensional elasto-plastic constitutive relation | p. 289 |
Conclusions | p. 291 |
References | p. 291 |
Damage in a composite material under combined mechanical and hygral load | p. 293 |
Introduction | p. 293 |
Generation of numerical concrete | p. 294 |
Drying process and self-desiccation | p. 295 |
Basic elements and equations governing the processes | p. 295 |
Material parameters | p. 296 |
An example of simulation of drying | p. 298 |
Endogenous and drying shrinkage | p. 299 |
General concept | p. 299 |
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