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Stick-slip behaviour of model granular materials in drained triaxial compression

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Drained triaxial axisymmetric compression tests are performed on water-saturated short cylindrical samples of nearly monodisperse glass beads, initially assembled in a loose state by a moist tamping technique. Both deviator stress \(q\) and volumetric strain \(\epsilon _v\), measured as functions of axial strain \(\epsilon _a\), for different strain rates, are affected by stick-slip events of very large amplitude, while the classical behavior of loose, contractant granular assemblies, approaching the critical state for large \(\epsilon _a\), corresponds to the upper envelop of the stress-strain behaviour. Those events consist in \((i)\) a very fast (slip) part in which a drop of \(q\) coincides with a jump of \(\epsilon _v\) (contraction), while loss of control of \(\epsilon _a\) and generation of pore pressure signal a dynamic collapse of the material structure triggered by an instability; and then \((ii)\) a quasi-static (stick) part in which the sample regains its strength and, over a short strain interval, behaves similarly to a denser system that dilates before reaching its critical state. A unique stress-dilatancy relation applies to all stick-slip events. Apparent internal friction angles and effects of strain rate and confining pressure are discussed, and it is argued that stick-slip instabilities originate in physico-chemical aging phenomena coupled to contact mechanics.

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  2. On referring as precursors to small amplitude events, we do not imply that their frequency increases as a major event is about to take place. The observation of small events is merely suggestive of the possibility of large ones to occur in the same experimental conditions.

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Financial support of the second author provided by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs through Eiffel excellence scholarship program is fully acknowledged. The authors would like to thank Dr. C. Dano of Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France for providing the SEM images of glass beads for this study.

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Doanh, T., Hoang, M.T., Roux, JN. et al. Stick-slip behaviour of model granular materials in drained triaxial compression. Granular Matter 15, 1–23 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-012-0384-6

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