Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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808605 | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters | 2013 | 18990 Pages |
Abstract
It has been well recognized that, due to anisotropic packing structure of granular material, the true stress in a specimen is different from the applied stress. However, very few research efforts have been focused on quantifying the relationship between the true stress and applied stress. In this paper, we derive an explicit relationship among applied stress tensor, material-fabric tensor, and force-fabric tensor; and we propose a relationship between the true stress tensor and the applied stress tensor. The validity of this derived relationship is examined by using the discrete element simulation results for granular material under biaxial and triaxial loading conditions.
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