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A thermomechanical approach for micromechanical continuum models of granular media

The term “granular material” describes any assembly of macroscopic particles. This broad definition encompasses a wide variety of everyday materials, for example sand, cereals, gravel and powders. However, despite their commonplace nature, to date no universally accepted set of constitutive equations exists to describe the behaviour of these materials. Thermomechanics and micromechanics are two modelling methodologies previously employed in separate efforts to represent granular behaviour. In this thesis, the two theories are integrated to develop new models of idealised granular materials. (For complete abstract open document)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245075
CreatorsWalsh, Stuart D. C.
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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