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Granular materials: Parameter identification and modelling of localisation problems
Author(s) -
Avci O.,
Ehlers W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.200700356
Subject(s) - porous medium , granular material , isotropy , materials science , yield surface , hardening (computing) , porosity , triaxial shear test , shear (geology) , plasticity , mechanics , geotechnical engineering , constitutive equation , composite material , structural engineering , geology , engineering , finite element method , physics , layer (electronics) , quantum mechanics
The prediction of landsliding requires an exact knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of granular materials. This kind of materials, e. g., sand, have a very complex deformation behaviour, which depend on the stress state and on the loading history. In this work, the deformation behaviour of the solid skeleton is characterised via homogeneous triaxial tests on dry sand specimens. Additionally, an appropriate elasto‐plastic material law to describe the solid skeleton in the frame of Theory of Porous Media (TPM) is used, which is implemented in the FE tool PANDAS. Furthermore, a single‐surface yield criterion with isotropic hardening, which limits the elastic domain, and a non‐associated plastic flow are employed. The determination of the material parameters of the linear elasticity law as well as the single‐surface yield criterion are based on test data of triaxial experiments. The material parameters are identified using a derivative‐based optimisation method (donlp2), which is coupled with PANDAS. Finally, a simulation of a benchmark test is presented to show shear band localisation effects, where the material behaviour is described by a triphasic porous media model based on the TPM, where the constituents are a deformable solid skeleton and two pore fluids, water and air. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)