Le filtre lent à sable,milieu biologique     

Jacques Wautier 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1948,10(4):70-85

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How fines content affects granular plasticity of under-filled binary mixtures     

Wang  Tao  Wautier  Antoine  Liu  Sihong  Nicot  François 《Acta Geotechnica》2022,17(6):2449-2463

In recent years, binary mixtures have been the subject of numerous experimental and numerical studies. However, few attempts have been made on investigating the effect of fines content (fc) on the non-associated plasticity of binary mixtures, which is significant for constitutive modelling of such material. Thanks to 2D DEM simulations, this study aims to provide an understanding of how fc affects the non-associated character of the flow rule and the resulting material instability in binary mixtures. For under-filled materials (where coarse grains constitute most of the load-bearing skeleton), fine grains help to stabilize the granular assembly (1) by limiting macroscopic plastic deformations, which results in strain hardening, and (2) by reducing contractive microstructure reorganizations, which reduces the gap between the associated and non-associated flow rule directions. Fines content influences the plastic flow direction but has no influence on normal direction of yield surface. Eventually, perspectives on mesoscale mechanisms are given to highlight the role of fine grains in the geometrical and mechanical properties of granular materials.

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Micro‐inertia origin of instabilities in granular materials          下载免费PDF全文

Antoine Wautier  Stephane Bonelli  François Nicot 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2018,42(9):1037-1056

Within the framework of the second‐order work theory, the onset of instabilities is explored numerically in loose granular materials through three‐dimensional DEM simulations. Stress controlled directional analysis are performed in Rendulic's plane, and a particular attention is paid to transient evolutions at the microscale. Thanks to a micromechanical analysis, the onset and development of transient mechanical instabilities is explored. It is shown that these instabilities result from the unjamming and bending of a few force chains associated with a local burst of kinetic energy. This burst of kinetic energy propagates to the whole sample and provokes a generalized unjamming of force chains. As force chains buckle, a phase transition from a quasi‐static to an inertial regime is observed. At the macroscopic scale, this results in a transient softening and a loss of controllability. After the collapse of existing force chains, the development of plastic strain is eventually stopped as new stable force chains are built.  相似文献   

DEM investigations of internal erosion: Grain transport in the light of micromechanics     

Antoine Wautier  Stéphane Bonelli  François Nicot 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2019,43(1):339-352

Internal erosion by suffusion can change dramatically the constitutive behavior of granular materials by modifying the fabric of granular materials. In this study, the effect of an internal fluid flow on granular materials is investigated at the material point scale using the numerical coupling between a discrete element method (DEM) and a pore-scale finite volume (PFV) coupling scheme. The influence of the stress state and the hydraulic loading (direction and intensity) on the occurrence of grain transport in dense widely graded granular samples is thus investigated and interpreted in terms of micromechanics. In particular, it is shown that grain transport is increased when the macroscopic flow direction is aligned with the privileged force chain orientation. The stress-induced microstructure modifications are shown to influence the transport distances by controlling the number of rattlers.  相似文献