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Experimental Versus Finite Element Approach to Study Scale Dependent Features in Granular Materials’ Stress and Deformation Fields

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Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium (IWBDG 2014)

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This paper presents selected results of physical model tests on large granular assembly and finite element analysis of the same configuration. Standard Mohr-Coulomb model was employed as a soil model. The comparison between experimental strain fields and FEM simulations was performed. It was found that the general alignment of strain localization pattern (dilation bands) belongs to macro scale features rather and is dominated by a test boundary conditions and the separated compaction bands may result entirely from granular nature of the sample.

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This research was funded by Polish National Science Centre, decision nr DEC-2011/03/B/ST8/05865.

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  1. Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland

    Danuta Lesniewska & Magdalena Pietrzak

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Correspondence to Danuta Lesniewska .

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Kam-Tim Chau

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    Jidong Zhao

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Lesniewska, D., Pietrzak, M. (2015). Experimental Versus Finite Element Approach to Study Scale Dependent Features in Granular Materials’ Stress and Deformation Fields. In: Chau, KT., Zhao, J. (eds) Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium. IWBDG 2014. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13506-9_39

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