Continuous and Discontinuous Modelling of Cohesive-Frictional Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Computational models for failure in cohesive-frictional materials with stochastically distributed imperfections

   • M. A. Gutiérrez, R. de Borst

   Pages 1-16

3. Modeling of localized damage and fracture in quasibrittle materials

   • M. Jirásek

   Pages 17-29

4. Microplane modelling and particle modelling of cohesive-frictional materials

   • E. Kuhl, G. A. D’Addetta, M. Leukart, E. Ramm

   Pages 31-46

5. 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

   • M. Lechner, Ch. Hellmich, H. A. Mang

   Pages 47-62

6. Thermo-poro-mechanics of rapid fault shearing

   • I. Vardoulakis

   Pages 63-74

7. A view on the variational setting of micropolar continua

   • P. Steinmann

   Pages 75-88

8. Macromodelling of softening in non-cohesive soils

   • T. Marcher, P. A. Vermeer

   Pages 89-110

9. An experimental investigation of the relationships between grain size distribution and shear banding in sand

   • G. Viggiani, M. Küntz, J. Desrues

   Pages 111-127

10. Micromechanics of the elastic behaviour of granular materials

    • N. P. Kruyt, L. Rothenburg

    Pages 129-142

11. On sticky-sphere assemblies

    • J. D. Goddard

    Pages 143-148

12. Cohesive granular texture

    • F. Radjaï, I. Preechawuttipong, R. Peyroux

    Pages 149-162

13. Micro-mechanisms of deformation in granular materials: experiments and numerical results

    • J. Lanier

    Pages 163-172

14. Scaling properties of granular materials

    • T. Pöschel, C. Salueña, T. Schwager

    Pages 173-184

15. Discrete and continuum modelling of granular materials

    • H. -B. Mühlhaus, H. Sakaguchi, L. Moresi, M. Fahey

    Pages 185-204

16. Difficulties and limitation of statistical homogenization in granular materials

    • B. Cambou, Ph. Dubujet

    Pages 205-214

17. From discontinuous models towards a continuum description

    • M. Lätzel, S. Luding, H. J. Herrmann

    Pages 215-230

18. From solids to granulates - Discrete element simulations of fracture and fragmentation processes in geomaterials

    • G. A. D’Addetta, F. Kun, E. Ramm, H. J. Herrmann

    Pages 231-258

19. Microscopic modelling of granular materials taking into account particle rotations

    • W. Ehlers, S. Diebels, T. Michelitsch

    Pages 259-274

20. Microstructured materials: local constitutive equation with internal lenght, theoretical and numerical studies

    • R. Chambon, T. Matsuchima, D. Caillerie

    Pages 275-291

A knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of both naturally occurring materials, such as soils and rocks, and artificial materials such as concrete and industrial granular matter, is of fundamental importance to their proper use in engineering and scientific applications. This volume contains selected lectures by international experts on current developments and problems in the numerical modelling of cohesive-frictional materials which provide a deeper understanding of the microscopic and macroscopic description of such materials. This book fills a gap by emphasizing the cross-fertilization of ideas between engineers and scientists engaged in this exciting field of research.

• composite
• composite material
• concrete
• damage
• deformation
• fracture
• friction
• geomaterials
• granular material
• mechanics
• micromechanics
• modeling
• numerical modelling
• rotation
• solids

• Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Pieter A. Vermeer

• Institute of Computer Applications 1, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Hans J. Herrmann, Stefan Luding

• Institute of Applied Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Wolfgang Ehlers, Stefan Diebels

• Institute of Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Ekkehard Ramm

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