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Experimental and Analytical Aspects of Strain Localization For Cohesive Frictional Materials
Experimental and Analytical Aspects of Strain Localization For Cohesive Frictional Materials
Dayakar Penumadu: Professor, Department of Civil and Environ. Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Ajanta Sachan: Former graduate student, Department of Civil and Environ. Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Amit Prashant: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP 208016, India
Acknowledgements: Financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grants CMS-9872618 and CMS-0296111 is gratefully acknowledged. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this presentation are those of authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
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Vertical Co-ordinate
10 mm Zone of measurement
Shear Band (a) Before Loading (b) Uniform Deformation (c) Strain Localization
Circumferential co-ordinate
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5.00
4.00
4.00
3.00
3.00
-0.14 -0.16
2.00
-0.16
2.00
-0.18
-0.18 -5.00 -4.00 -3.00 -2.00 -1.00 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00
-0.04 7.00
Zone A
6.00
Zone B
5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00 -0.18 -5.00 -4.00 -3.00 -2.00 -1.00 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00
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Shear banding in Kaolin clay specimens using Lubricated end triaxial setup
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Observed Strain Localization within the Cubical Specimens during True Triaxial Testing
Defused Localization
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-9 -6 -3 0 -3 -6 0 3 6 9
b=0.5 b=0.75
b=1.0
- Failure Location
.
b=0.25
b=0
12
15
18
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