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Probing into the strain induced anisotropy of Hostun RF loose sand

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Several recent linear drained preloading histories with fixed direction were especially designed to study the effects of strain induced anisotropy of loose Hostun RF sand in the compression side of the classical triaxial plane. Nearly identical void ratio and a same initial isotropic stress state prior to the final undrained shearing in compression are the requirements of the experimental program to take into account only the deviatoric strain histories. The effects of previous deviatoric strain histories on the undrained response of loose Hostun RF sand are identified: mainly the progressive transformation of a contractive and unstable behaviour of very loose sand into a dilative and stable behaviour of dense-like sand by previous linear drained history, while remaining in the same state of loose density. Experimental data evidence the directional dependency of the initial gradient of the effective stress paths, independent of the length of the approaching linear stress paths; the large common non linear effective stress response up to the deviatoric stress peak; the progressive appearance of the dilatancy domain and the unexpected evolution of the undrained behaviour of loose and presheared sand. The paper provides new insights into the mechanisms of strain induced anisotropy of loose sand created by simple linear triaxial stress paths from an isotropic stress state.

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Hareb, H., Doanh, T. Probing into the strain induced anisotropy of Hostun RF loose sand. Granular Matter 14, 589–605 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-012-0362-z

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