granular materials if the combined effects of the total stress, the pore fluid stress and the level of saturation could be combined in a suction-induced effective stress measure, which would represent the inter
linear proportionality of stress to strain, has been calculated using equation (1), where F is the applied force; A, the cross-sectional area; L, the unstressed height; and ΔL, the change in height due to F; F/A (in compression or tension) is the stress and ΔL/L is the strain...
The validity and the limit of the effective stress concept in soil mechanics is shown based on the theory of two-phase mixture. It has been emphasized that the behavior of saturated soil with water depends on the balance of force and the compressibility of constituents. -Author...
The Weibull function is applied in this software to allocate material properties in a heterogeneous extent. The finite element method is employed to obtain the stress fields in the mesoscopic elements. Elastic damage mechanics is used to describe the constitutive law of the meso-scale elements when...