1. Micromechanical analysis of kinematic hardening in natural clay
- Author
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Yin, Zhen-Yu, Chang, Ching S., Hicher, Pierre-Yves, Karstunen, Minna, Helsinki University of technology, University of Massachusetts, Ecole Centrale de nates, University of Strathclyde, Academy of Finland (Grant 210744) (Funder), EC MRTN-CT-2004-512120 (Funder), Helsinki University of Technology ( TKK ), Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique ( GeM ), Université de Nantes ( UN ) -École Centrale de Nantes ( ECN ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), University of Strathclyde, University of Massachusetts [Amherst] ( UMass Amherst ), TKK Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique (GeM), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-École Centrale de Nantes (ECN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Strathclyde [Glasgow], University of Massachusetts [Amherst] (UMass Amherst), and University of Massachusetts System (UMASS)
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Materials science ,[ SPI.MECA ] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph] ,Stress path ,Yield surface ,Anisotropic material ,[ SPI.MAT ] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Materials ,Constitutive equation ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,Plasticity ,[SPI.MAT]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Materials ,0203 mechanical engineering ,General Materials Science ,Geotechnical engineering ,Anisotropy ,021101 geological & geomatics engineering ,Constitutive behaviour ,Mechanical Engineering ,Stress space ,Micromechanics ,Mechanics ,[SPI.MECA]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph] ,Physics::Classical Physics ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,Contact mechanics ,TA ,Mechanics of Materials ,Elastic–plastic material ,Microstructures ,Yield condition - Abstract
International audience; This paper presents a micromechanical analysis of the macroscopic behaviour of natural clay. A microstructural stress-strain model for clayey material has been developed which considers clay as a collection of clusters. The deformation of a representative volume of the material is generated by mobilizing and compressing all the clusters along their contact planes. Numerical simulations of multistage drained triaxial stress paths on Otaniemi clay have been performed and compared the numerical results to the experimental ones in order to validate the modelling approach. Then, the numerical results obtained at the microscopic level were analysed in order to explain the induced anisotropy observed in the clay behaviour at the macroscopic level. The evolution of the state variables at each contact plane during loading can explain the changes in shape and position in the stress space of the yield surface at the macroscopic level, as well as the rotation of the axes of anisotropy of the material.
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- 2009