Solid Mechanics and Its Applications

Preface. Constitutive Models. The Viscoplastic Compaction of Powders; N.A. Fleck, et al. Inelastic Behaviour of Random Arrays of Identical Spheres; J.T. Jenkins. Fractal Fragmentation and Frictional Stability in Granular Materials; C.G. Sammis. Clastic Mechanics; M.D. Bolton, G.R. McDowell. Compressible Porous Media: Toward a General Theory; R. de Boer. Mechanical Behaviour of Mixtures of Kaolin and Coarse Sand; G.V. Kumar, D.M. Wood. Constitutive Modelling of Response of Granular Interface Layers; Z. Mroz. A Characteristic State Plasticity Model for Granular Materials; S. Krenk. On the Constitutive Potential for Powder and Porous Bodies; M. Shtern. Scaling Laws in the Consolidation of Powder Compacts; A. Casagranda, P. Sofronis. Constitutive Equation for Compaction of Ceramic Powders; N.D. Cristescu, et al. A Constitutive Model for the Sintering of Fine Grained Alumina; M. Jan, A.C.F. Cocks. Importance of Incremental Nonlinearity in the Deformation of Granular Materials; Y. Tobita. The Use of Legendre Transformations in Developing the Constitutive Laws of Geomechanics from Thermodynamic Principles; I.F. Collins. Derivation of Incremental Stress-Strain Response for Plasticity Models Based on Thermodynamic Functions; G.T. Houlsby. Contact Mechanics and Computational Methods. Local Contact Behaviour of Viscoplastic Particles; B. Storakers. Cement Among Grains in Rocks; J. Dvorkin. Three Dimensional Discrete Mechanics of Granular Materials; M. Satake. Numerical Analysis of Clay Particle Assemblies; A. Anandarajah. On Gradient-Enhanced Damage Theories; R. de Borst, et al. Granular Flow: Theory and Applications. Remarks on Coaxiality in Fully Developed Gravity Flows of Dry Granular Materials; A.J.M. Spencer. Modelling Mathematically the Flow of Granular Materials; D. Harris. The Double-Shearing Velocity Equations for Dilatant Shear-Index Granular Materials; J.M. Hill. Distinct Element Simulations and Dynamic Microstructural Imaging of Slow Shearing Granular Flows; U. Tuzun, D.M. Heyes. Granular Avalanches on Complex Topography; J.M.N.T. Gray. Tracking Particles in Tumbling Containers; G. Metcalfe. On the Reality of Antisymmetric Stresses in Fast Granular Flows; H.-B. Muhlhaus, P. Hornby. Internal Friction Angles: Characterization Using Biaxial Test Simulations; D. Corriveau, et al. A Mechanistic Model for Attrition of Particles in Flow Systems; D.C. Clupper, et al. Instabilities. Simple Shear of Porous Materials at Large Strains; D. Durban, O. Yagel. Formation of Shear Bands in Models of Granular Material; M. Shearer, et al. Microstructure Developed in Shear Bands of Dense Granular Soils and its Computer Simulation -- Mechanisms of Dilatancy and Failure; M. Oda, et al. The Evolution of Anisotropy in Porous Materials and its Implications for Shear Localization; M. Kailasam, P.P. Castaneda. Shear Band Localization in Fluid-Saturated Granular Elasto-Plastic Porous Media; W. Ehlers. Applications. Consolidation of Metal Coated Fibres; H.N.G. Wadley, J.M. Kunze. Analysis for Die Compaction of Metal Powders; K.T. Kim, et al. The Modelling of the Influence of Wall Friction on the Characteristics of Pressed Ceramic Parts; S.A. Watson, et al. Drainage and Drying of Deformable Porous Materials: One-Dimensional Case Study; P. Dangla, O. Coussy. Mechanics of Sand Production for Acting Wells; S.B. Grafutko, V.N. Nikolaevskiy.