Granular materials are the most recurrent form of solid-state matter on Earth. They challenge
researchers and engineers in various fields not only because they occur with a broad variety …

Geothermics is an area of geophysics that studies the thermal state and history of the interior
of the Earth. Solar heat penetrates only into the topmost layers of the Earth's crust. Diurnal …

This Chapter describes the most important thermal parameters such as conductivity,
capacity, duffusivity and interrelation of these parameters between themselves. Effect of …

It is well known that soil is inherently anisotropic and its mechanical behavior is significantly
influenced by its fabric anisotropy. Hypoplasticity is increasingly being accepted in the …

Fabric, expressed by means of an evolving deviatoric fabric tensor F, plays a very important
role in the anisotropic mechanical response of granular materials. The Anisotropic Critical …

In order to incorporate the very important role of evolving fabric anisotropy on the
mechanical response of sand, a constitutive model is developed within the frameworks of …

Soil fabric and its evolving nature underpin the non-coaxial, anisotropic mechanical
behaviour of sand, which has not been adequately recognized by past studies on …

Fabric anisotropy is a key component to understand the behaviour of granular soils. In
general, experimental data on fabric anisotropy for real granular soils are very limited …

The paper describes the formulation and capabilities of a new constitutive model that
accounts for the effects of fabric anisotropy on the response of granular materials under …

The classical critical state theory of granular mechanics makes no reference to the
anisotropy of the material and has thus raised questions over the uniqueness of the critical …