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Energy dissipation in granular materials in triaxial tests
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mukwiri, R., Ghaffari Motlagh, Y., Coombs, W., & Augarde, C. (2017, April). Energy dissipation in granular materials in triaxial tests. Presented at 25th Conference on Computational Mechanics UKACM 2017., Birmingham, UK

The triaxial test is used in a laboratory to investigate the behaviour of geotechnical materials (e.g. clays and sands). The difficulty in measuring some properties of granular media such as energy changes throughout the test have motivated the curre... Read More about Energy dissipation in granular materials in triaxial tests.

Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mukwiri, R., Ghaffari Motlagh, Y., Coombs, W., & Augarde, C. (2023, March). Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression. Presented at ACME - UK 2016 24th Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering., Cardiff, UK

In recent years it has been shown that the micro-mechanics of one-dimensional normal compression of sands can be modelled in three-dimensions within the discrete element method [7]. The compression is displacement driven such that the top platen of t... Read More about Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression.