Inherent fabrics exist in natural soils during deposition. After applying stresses, inherent
fabrics in soils are altered due to the rearrangement of soil particles, which gives rise to …

Recent earthquake case histories in Japan and New Zealand revealed that soil sites can
experience liquefaction multiple times under a sequence of earthquake shaking. Field …

The discrete element method (DEM) is ideally suited for the study of mechanical behavior of
particulate media. While serial DEM codes can readily handle models containing thousands …

The effects of subsurface heterogeneity on liquefaction phenomena during earthquakes are
discussed using case histories and nonlinear dynamic analyses with different subsurface …

We explore computationally efficient techniques to improve the XRCT image processing of
low resolution and very noisy images for use in reconstruction of the fabric of densely …

A newly developed line-style sand pluviator has been calibrated to prepare repeatable sand
specimens of specific statuses of compactness and homogeneity for laboratory tests. Sand is …

The effects of subsurface heterogeneity on liquefaction phenomena during earthquakes are
discussed using case histories and nonlinear dynamic analyses with different subsurface …

The paper reviews the published literature on some aspects of fabric and particle behaviour
in cohesionless soils. It uses insights from Discrete Element Modelling and Microcomputed …

It is typically challenging to model numerically soil-structure interaction problems in sandy
soils with high accuracy. Difficulties include employing competent but practical soil …

The importance of shear rupture in large-scale deformations of granular materials makes it a
popular subject of many physical experiments supplemented by numerical analyses. Quite …