Dr Giuliano Pretti giuliano.pretti@durham.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Preserving non-negative porosity values in a bi-phase elasto-plastic material under Terzaghi’s effective stress principle
Pretti, Giuliano; Coombs, William; Augarde, Charles; Marchena Puigvert, Marc; Reyna Gutierrez, Jose Antonio
Authors
Professor William Coombs w.m.coombs@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Charles Augarde charles.augarde@durham.ac.uk
Head Of Department
Marc Marchena Puigvert
Jose Antonio Reyna Gutierrez
Abstract
Poromechanics is a well-established field of continuum mechanics which seeks to model materials with multiple phases, usually a stiff solid phase and fluid phases of liquids or gases. Applications are widespread particularly in geomechanics where Terzaghi's effective stress is widely used to solve engineering soil mechanics problems. This approach assumes that the solid phase is incompressible, an assumption that leads to many advantages and simplifications without major loss of fidelity to the real world. Under the assumption of finite (as opposed to infinitesimal) strains, the poromechnaics of two- or bi-phase materials gains complexity and while the compressible solid phase case has received attention from researchers, the incompressible case has received less. For the finite strain - incompressible solid phase case there is a fundamental issue with standard material models, in that for some loadings solid skeleton mass conservation is violated and negative Eulerian porosities are predicted. While, to the authors' best knowledge, acknowledgement of this essential problem has been disregarded in the literature, an elegant solution is presented here, where the constraint on Eulerian porosity can be incorporated into the free energy function for a material. The formulation is explained in detail, soundly grounded in the laws of thermodynamics and validated on a number of illustrative examples.
Citation
Pretti, G., Coombs, W., Augarde, C., Marchena Puigvert, M., & Reyna Gutierrez, J. A. (2024). Preserving non-negative porosity values in a bi-phase elasto-plastic material under Terzaghi’s effective stress principle. Mechanics of Materials, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.104958
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 22, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 1, 2024 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Feb 22, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 1, 2024 |
Journal | Mechanics of Materials |
Print ISSN | 0167-6636 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.104958 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2272230 |
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