The soil-structure interface problem is an important part of soil-structure interaction research. These problems are mostly three-dimensional space problems, which is more complex to solve. In this paper, reduced stress and strain rate vectors are incorporated into the explicitly granular hypoplastic model by considering the plane strain state precisely. In addition, considering the important influence of roughness on the mechanical properties of contact surface, an improved hypoplastic model is established by incorporating the influence of roughness into the hypoplastic model, and the applicability of the new improved model is validated by comparing with the simulation results of the Mohr–Coulomb model, the explicitly granular hypoplastic models, and the experimental data. The results indicate that the improved model can be utilized to reflect the nonlinearity of the mechanical properties of the contact surface, which is in good agreement with the experimental data.
The purpose of this study is to develop a micromechanical-based microstructure model for transversely isotropic granular media and then use it to investigate the propagation characteristics of particle rotation waves. In this paper, the particle translation and rotation are selected as basic independent variables and the particle displacement at contact due to particle rotation is ignored. The relative deformation tensors are introduced to describe the local deformational fluctuation because of their discrete nature and microstructure effect. Based on micro–macro deformation energy conservation, the constitutive relations are derived through transferring the summation into an integral and introducing the contact fabric tensor. The governing equations and corresponding boundary conditions can then be obtained based on Hamilton’s principle. Subsequently, the dispersion characteristics and bandgap features of particle rotation waves in transversely isotropic granular media are analyzed based on the present model. The research shows that: the present microstructure model can predict 12 particle rotation waves and reflect 8 dispersion relations; the effect of the change in fabric on the dispersion relation of particle rotation waves can be mainly attributed to the effect of equivalent stiffness on frequency; and the degree of anisotropy has significant effects on the width of frequency bandgap of longitudinal waves, while it has little effect on the width of frequency bandgap of transverse and in-plane shear waves.
The fabric anisotropy and anisotropic parameters have great effect on the mechanical property of sand. Based on the existing anisotropic model, a modified anisotropic hypoplastic model is developed by incorporating the relation between fabric tensor and anisotropic parameters into the nonlinear part of the constitutive model. The applicability of the improved anisotropic hypoplastic model is validated by comparing with the existing model and experimental data. As a result, it is found that the modified model can well predict the mechanical response of anisotropic sand.
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