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0000-0002-2918-3934
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Université catholique de Louvain
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1051/E3SCONF/20199202015
Abstract: Internal erosion (suffusion) is caused by water seeping through the matrix of coarse soil and progressively transporting out fine particles. The mechanical strength of soils within water retaining structures may be affected after internal erosion occurs. However, most experimental investigations on the mechanical consequences of internal erosion have used triaxial tests on s les having nonhomogeneous particle size distributions along their lengths. Such nonhomogeneities arise from the most commonly used s le formation procedure, in which seeping water enters one end of a s le and washes fine particles out the other. In this paper a new soil s le formation procedure is presented which results in homogeneous particle size distributions along the direction of seepage, that is at all locations along a s le's length.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-12-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S11440-022-01753-9
Abstract: Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring offers the potential to sense particle-scale interactions that lead to macro-scale responses of granular materials however, there remains a paucity of understanding of the fundamental links between particle-scale mechanisms and AE generation in particulate materials, which limits interpretation of the measured AE. The objective of this study was to establish links between particulate-scale energies and AE activity measured at the macro-scale in experiments. To achieve this, a programme of 3D DEM simulations was performed on granular soil/steel structure interfaces and the results were compared with experimental measurements. The findings show that the fundamental particulate-scale mechanisms that contribute to AE generation are friction and d ing in particulate rearrangement, with friction being the dominant mechanism (i.e. 95% of the total energy). Dissipated plastic energy was influenced in the same way as measured AE activity by unload–reload behaviour, imposed stress level, mobilised shearing resistance, and shearing velocity. Relationships have been established between AE and dissipated plastic energy ( R 2 from 0.96 to 0.99), which show AE generated per Joule of dissipated plastic energy is significantly greater in shearing than compression. A general expression has been proposed that links AE and plastic energy dissipation. This new knowledge enables improved interpretation of AE measurements and underpins the development of theoretical and numerical approaches to model and predict AE behaviour in particulate materials.
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Date: 11-2020
Abstract: Internal erosion (suffusion) is caused by water seeping through the matrix of coarse soil and progressively transporting out fine particles. The mechanical strength and stress–strain behavior of soils within water-retaining structures may be affected by internal erosion. Some researchers have set out to conduct triaxial erosion tests to study the mechanical consequences of erosion. Prior to conducting a triaxial test they subject a soil s le, which has an initially homogeneous particle-size distribution and density throughout, to erosion by causing water to enter one end of a s le and wash fine particles out the other. The erosion and movement of particles causes heterogeneous particle-size distributions to develop along the s le length. In this paper, a new soil s le formation procedure is presented that results in homogeneous particle-size distributions along the length of an eroded s le. Triaxial tests are conducted on homogeneous s les formed using the new procedure as well as heterogeneous s les created by the more commonly used approach. Results show that s les with homogeneous post-erosion particle-size distributions exhibit slightly higher peak deviator stresses than those that were heterogeneous. The results highlight the importance of ensuring homogeneity of post-erosion particle-size distributions when assessing the mechanical consequences of erosion. Forming s les using the new procedure enables the s le’s response to triaxial loading to be interpreted against a measure of its initially homogenous state.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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