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Internal Deformation Measurement and Force Chain Characterization of Mason Sand under Confined Compression using Incremental Digital Volume Correlation

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Abstract

The mechanical behavior of granular materials such as sand is not well understood due to its complex solid/fluid-like behavior. In this paper, Mason sand was investigated to determine the grain-level Young’s modulus and hardness by nanoindentation, and the mesoscale behavior through X-ray tomography of a sample in compression. Mason sand specimen was confined in a polycarbonate tube and compressed in the axial direction at ten axial compressive strains up to -21.8 % while its microstructures were observed. The mesoscale deformations were determined by incremental digital volume correlation of reconstructed volumetric images. A procedure for characterization of internal force chains is developed. The minor principal strains and their principal directions were obtained and used to determine the formation and evolution of force chains.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the support of ONR MURI grant N00014-11-1-0691 and US Army grant W91CRB-13-C-0037. We also thank NSF CMMI-1031829 and ECCS-1307997, and Louis A. Beercherl Jr. Chair for additional support.

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    Zhenxing Hu, Yingjie Du, Huiyang Luo & Hongbing Lu

  2. Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Beijing, 100095, China

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Hu, Z., Du, Y., Luo, H. et al. Internal Deformation Measurement and Force Chain Characterization of Mason Sand under Confined Compression using Incremental Digital Volume Correlation. Exp Mech 54, 1575–1586 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-014-9915-x

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