Continuous and Discontinuous Modelling of Cohesive-Frictional Materials

Computational models for failure in cohesive-frictional materials with stochastically distributed imperfections....Pages 1-16
Modeling of localized damage and fracture in quasibrittle materials....Pages 17-29
Microplane modelling and particle modelling of cohesive-frictional materials....Pages 31-46
Short-term creep of shotcrete - thermochemoplastic material modelling and nonlinear analysis of a laboratory test and of a NATM excavation by the Finite Element Method....Pages 47-62
Thermo-poro-mechanics of rapid fault shearing....Pages 63-74
A view on the variational setting of micropolar continua....Pages 75-88
Macromodelling of softening in non-cohesive soils....Pages 89-110
An experimental investigation of the relationships between grain size distribution and shear banding in sand....Pages 111-127
Micromechanics of the elastic behaviour of granular materials....Pages 129-142
On sticky-sphere assemblies....Pages 143-148
Cohesive granular texture....Pages 149-162
Micro-mechanisms of deformation in granular materials: experiments and numerical results....Pages 163-172
Scaling properties of granular materials....Pages 173-184
Discrete and continuum modelling of granular materials....Pages 185-204
Difficulties and limitation of statistical homogenization in granular materials....Pages 205-214
From discontinuous models towards a continuum description....Pages 215-230
From solids to granulates - Discrete element simulations of fracture and fragmentation processes in geomaterials....Pages 231-258
Microscopic modelling of granular materials taking into account particle rotations....Pages 259-274
Microstructured materials: local constitutive equation with internal lenght, theoretical and numerical studies....Pages 275-291
Damage in a composite material under combined mechanical and hygral load....Pages 293-307