Experimental evidence of a unique flow rule of non-cohesive soils under high-cyclic loading |
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Authors: | T Wichtmann A Niemunis Th Triantafyllidis |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany |
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Abstract: | The presented results of cyclic triaxial tests on sand demonstrate that the cumulative effects due to small cycles obey a kind of flow rule. It mainly depends on the average stress ratio about which the cycles are performed. This so-called “cyclic flow rule” is unique and can be well approximated by flow rules for monotonic loading. Amongst others it is shown that the cyclic flow rule is only moderately influenced by the average mean pressure, by the strain loop (span, shape, polarization), the void ratio, the loading frequency, the static preloading and the grain size distribution curve. A slight increase of the compactive portion of the flow rule with increasing residual strain (due to the previous cycles) was observed. These experimental findings prove that the cyclic flow rule is an essential and indispensable concept in explicit (N-type) accumulation models. |
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Keywords: | Cyclic flow rule Direction of strain accumulation Cyclic triaxial tests Sand |
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