Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Stiffness of Destructured Weak Carbonate Rock (F. J. Alvarez-Borges, B. N. Madhusudhan, D. J. Richards)....Pages 1-9
A Nonlinear Hyperelastic Anisotropic Model for Soils (A. Amorosi, F. Rollo, G. T. Houlsby)....Pages 11-22
Mapping Grain Strains in Sand Under Load Using Neutron Diffraction Scanning (Stefanos D. Athanasopoulos, Stephen A. Hall, Joe F. Kelleher, Thilo Pirling, Jonas Engqvist, Johan Hektor)....Pages 23-33
Dual Porosity/Single Permeability Poromechanics Response of an Inclined Wellbore with No-Flow Outer Boundary (Silvio Baldino, Stefan Z. Miska)....Pages 35-48
Numerical Scattering Experiments on Assemblies of Clay Platelets (Georgios Birmpilis, Matias Nordin, Jelke Dijkstra)....Pages 49-56
Granular Jamming as Controllable Stiffness Mechanism for Medical Devices (L. Blanc, A. Pol, B. François, A. Delchambre, P. Lambert, F. Gabrieli)....Pages 57-66
Adhesion Failures in Granular Mixtures (Michele Buonsanti)....Pages 67-79
Evolution of Granular Contact Gain, Loss and Movement Under Shear Studied Using Synchrotron X-ray Micro-tomography (Zhuang Cheng, Jianfeng Wang)....Pages 81-88
Microstructural Changes Underlying the Macro-response of a Stiff Clay (Simona Guglielmi, Federica Cotecchia, Francesco Cafaro, Antonio Gens)....Pages 89-97
Micromechanical Insights of Strain Rate Effect on Crushable Granular Materials (Soukat Kumar Das, Arghya Das)....Pages 99-107
Compressibility and Swelling of an Overconsolidated Highly Plastic Paleogene Clay (Irene Rocchi, Giorgia Di Remigio, Gitte Lyng Grønbech, Varvara Zania)....Pages 109-117
DEM Analysis of Jacked Open-Ended Pile (Nuo Duan, Yi Pik Cheng, Jun Wei Liu, Feng Yu)....Pages 119-126
Chemo-mechanical Modelling in Bonded Geomaterials from the Micro- to the Macro-scale (Alessandro Gajo, Francesco Cecinato, Tomasz Hueckel)....Pages 127-133
Geochemical Control of Laponite Dispersions for Pore Fluid Engineering of Granular Soils (Amy Getchell, Hailie Swanson, Marika Santagata)....Pages 135-145
Adsorption and Diffusion of Pollutants in Unsaturated Soils (Pasquale Giovine)....Pages 147-157
Modelling Water Flow and Ion Transport in Clay Soils: The Case of KCl Wells in the Head of an Earthflow (Giuseppe M. Grimaldi, Dario M. Pontolillo, Jacopo De Rosa, Enzo Rizzo, Caterina Di Maio)....Pages 159-167
Micromechanics of Granular Media Characterised Using X-Ray Tomography and 3DXRD (Stephen A. Hall, Ryan C. Hurley, Jonathan Wright)....Pages 169-176
Aging Effects on Liquefaction Resistance and Shear Wave Velocity in Reconstituted Sand (Tsuyoshi Honda)....Pages 177-186
Coupled Fluid-Particle Modeling of Submerged Granular Collapse (L. Jing, G. C. Yang, C. Y. Kwok, Y. D. Sobral)....Pages 187-194
The Paradox of the Aspect Ratio and Its Effect on Bulk Stress of a Granular Assembly (Reid Kawamoto, Takashi Matsushima)....Pages 195-203
The Coefficient of Lateral Earth Pressure K0 Subjected to Freezing and Thawing for Granular Soils (Incheol Kim, Garam Kim, Seongcheol Hong, Jiyeong Lee, Junhawn Lee)....Pages 205-211
Photo-Elastic Observation of Loading and Crushing of a Single Grain (Danuta Leśniewska, Iwona Radosz, Magdalena Pietrzak)....Pages 213-223
Effect of Rubber Inclusion on the Friction Angle at Critical State for Different Host Sands (W. Li, C. Y. Kwok, K. Senetakis, C. S. Sandeep)....Pages 225-233
Does G0 of Granular Materials Carry Information on Their Particle Characteristics? (B. N. Madhusudhan, M. C. Todisco)....Pages 235-245
Heterogeneity and Variability of Clay Rock Microstructure in a Hydro-Mechanical Double Scale FEM × FEM Analysis (B. Pardoen, S. Dal Pont, J. Desrues, P. Bésuelle, D. Prêt, P. Cosenza)....Pages 247-256
Strains Inside Shear Bands Observed in Tests on Model Retaining Wall in Active State (Magdalena Pietrzak, Danuta Leśniewska)....Pages 257-265
Storage and Loss Moduli in an Ideal Aggregate of Elastic Disks, with Lubricated Contacts (Giuseppina Recchia, James T. Jenkins, Luigi La Ragione)....Pages 267-276
Particle Shape Distribution Effects on the Triaxial Response of Sands: A DEM Study (R. Rorato, M. Arroyo, A. Gens, E. Andò, G. Viggiani)....Pages 277-286
A Conceptual Framework for Particle Crushing: From the Strength of the Particle to the Evolution of the Granular Distribution (Younes Salami, Jean-Marie Konrad)....Pages 287-293
The Effects of Strain Localization on the Determination of Critical State Seen with Experimental and Numerical Models (Erminio Salvatore, Edward Andò, Giuseppe Modoni, Gioacchino Viggiani)....Pages 295-307
An Experimental Study on the Tangential Contact Behaviour of Soil Interfaces (C. S. Sandeep, K. Senetakis)....Pages 309-317
Experiments Show a Second Length Scale in Weakly Cohered Granular Materials (Saurabh Singh, John C. Miers, Christopher J. Saldana, Tejas G. Murthy)....Pages 319-326
Influence of Irreversible Contacts on the Stiffness of Dense Polydisperse Packings (H. Smit, R. Kievitsbosch, V. Magnanimo, S. Luding, K. Taghizadeh)....Pages 327-336
A Comparative Study of Greenfield Tunnelling in Sands: FEM, DEM, and Centrifuge Modelling (Geyang Song, Andrea Franza, Itai Elkayam, Alec M. Marshall, Assaf Klar)....Pages 337-345
Discrete Element Modelling of Crushable Tube-Shaped Grains (M. Stasiak, G. Combe, V. Richefeu, P. Villard, J. Desrues, G. Armand et al.)....Pages 347-360
Theoretical Modelling of the State-Dependent Behaviour of Granular Soils Based on Fractional Derivatives (Yifei Sun, Yufeng Gao, Chen Chen)....Pages 361-371
Modelling Wave Propagation in Dry Granular Materials (X. Tang, J. Yang)....Pages 373-381
An Investigation of 3D Sand Particle Fragment Reassembly (Mengmeng Wu, Jianfeng (Jeff) Wang)....Pages 383-390
Effects of Dilation and Contraction on Immersed Granular Column Collapse (G. C. Yang, L. Jing, C. Y. Kwok, Y. D. Sobral)....Pages 391-399
Effects of Particle 3D Shape on Packing Density, Critical State, Static Instability and Liquefaction of Sands Using a Proposed ‘Relative State Parameter’ (Hao Yang, Jianfeng Wang)....Pages 401-411
Particle Migration and Clogging in Radial Flow: A Microfluidics Study (B. Zhao, Q. Liu, J. C. Santamarina)....Pages 413-418