Journal
GRANULAR MATTER
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-016-0690-5
Keywords
Discrete elements; Thermal shakedown; Granular micromechanics; Force relaxation; Anisotropy
Funding
- China Scholarship Council
- State Key Lab of Subtropical Building Science, SCUT [2014ZA03]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1538460] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Temperature change, as a common kind of internal perturbation performed on granular materials, has a significant effect on the bulk properties of granular materials. However, few studies on thermally-induced shakedown under a long-term thermal cycling were reported. In this work, the discrete element method was used to give insight into the thermally-induced shakedown on the fabric and stress states within non-cohesive, frictional granular assemblies. Assemblies were submitted to thermal cycling at a stationary boundary condition after experiencing a one-dimensional compression. Evolution of coordination number, entropy and anisotropy was investigated as well as boundary forces and contact forces. At the same time, effects of the heating rate, the initial vertical load and the magnitude of temperature change were examined. It demonstrates that thermal cycling induces a significant force relaxation within granular materials, while the corresponding granular fabric has a small change. In addition, the entropy and anisotropy decreases with thermal cycling. Moreover, the initial vertical load can constrain the development of thermally-induced fabric change, thereby limiting force relaxation to some degree. Both high heating rate and larger magnitudes of temperature change contribute to more significant force relaxation. However, they cause smaller fabric changes even though they provide larger perturbations.
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