Numerical simulation of the effect of interface friction of a bounding structure on shear deformation in a granular soil |
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| Authors: | Babak Ebrahimian Erich Bauer |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, , Tehran, Iran;2. Institute of Applied Mechanics, Graz University of Technology, , A‐8010 Graz, Austria |
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| 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. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | interface behavior granular materials plane shearing micropolar continuum hypoplasticity shear localization |
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