Granular soils are abundant in nature and extensively used for engineering purposes.
Understanding the correlation between particle breakage and its mechanical response of …

Discrete element method (DEM)-based simulations are crucial for bridging macro and micro
research, particularly owing to the limitations of experimental methods. This paper reviews …

Researchers and engineers have widely adopted the discrete element method (DEM) for
simulation of bulk materials. One important aspect in such simulations is the determination of …

Granular materials reach critical states upon shearing. The position and shape of a critical
state line (CSL) in the compression plane are important for constitutive models …

The breakage behaviour of a pre-crushed carbonate sand sheared within a miniature triaxial
loading apparatus is investigated using high-spatial resolution X-ray micro-tomography. Full …

Previous work by the authors using the discrete-element method (DEM) has used the
octahedral shear stress within a sphere together with a Weibull distribution of strengths and …

Particle crushing underpins important macroscopic behaviour of granular materials such as
yielding, deformation, dilatancy, failure, mobility and packing features. The crushing …

Existing DEM researches related to particle breakage usually assume that particles are
regular shapes and debris is spherical. In this paper, a method combining relatively realistic …

Liquefaction resistance of sand can be either increased or reduced due to an undrained
cyclic pre-shearing depending on the degree of pre-shearing, which hinders a better …

Particle shape plays a key role in the mechanical and rheological behaviour of particulate
and granular materials. The simulation of particulate assemblies typically entails the use of …