Abstract
Recently, the shear behavior of a cohesionless granular strip that is in contact with a very rough surface of a moving bounding structure has been numerically investigated by several authors by using a micropolar hypoplastic continuum model. It was shown that the micropolar boundary conditions assumed along the interface have a strong influence on the deformations within the granular layer. In previous investigations, only interface friction angles for very rough bounding structures were assumed. In contrast, the focus of the present paper is on the influence of the interface roughness on the deformation behavior of the granular strip when the interface friction angle is lower than the peak friction angle of the granular material. In addition to the interface friction angle, particular attention is also paid to the influence of the mean grain diameter, the solid hardness, the initial void ratio, and the vertical stress on the maximum horizontal shear displacement within the granular layer before sliding is started.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1486-1506 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 25 Aug 2012 |
Keywords
- Granular materials
- Hypoplasticity
- Interface behavior
- Micropolar continuum
- Plane shearing
- Shear localization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
- General Materials Science
- Mechanics of Materials
- Computational Mechanics