Instability of dilative sand
A type of pre-failure instability which occurs for medium loose to dense sand under fully drained conditions is studied in this paper. It is observed experimentally that when a specimen is sheared along a drained stress path involving a decrease in the effective mean stress, it becomes unstable afte...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Thomas Telford (ICE Publishing)
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49584/ |