In research concerning the crushing mechanism of granular materials, natural materials-such as sand [27, 30, 36,38], soil particles [29], basalt [32], and ice particles [36]-are mostly taken as ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Engrg. 122: 4 (1996) 309-316 Lade, P. V., Yamamuro, J. A. and Bopp, P. A. (1996): Significance of particle crushing in granular materials, J. Geotech. Engrg., 122(4), 309-316. 14) R.A. Lang, Numerical simulation of comminution in granular materials with an application to fault gouge evolution unpublished Master of Science Thesis (2002) A&M ...
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WhatsApp: +86 182217550731. Introduction. Granular materials such as sand, soil, and rock aggregates are ubiquitous. Particle size distribution of granular materials has great influence on their physico-mechanical properties, such as compressibility, yield strength and permeability [1].Gradation evolution of granular materials is important to earth and planetary …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Sands exhibit patterns of time effects different from those observed in clays. It appears that time effects in sand are associated with crushing of particles, and a mechanistic picture of time effects in granular materials is constructed in which time effects depend on particle crushing by static fatigue, interparticle friction, and grain rearrangement.
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Previous studies related with the crushing of granular materials have been critically reviewed and evaluated in Sect. 2. Experimental procedure and material preparation have been summarized in Sects. 3, 4 and 5. The results of the experiments are evaluated and explained in Sect. 6. Major findings of the paper are summarized in Sect. 7 and the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073We investigate confined comminution of a representative granular material, quartz sand, under quasi-static and dynamic compression at different stress levels, with …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The effect of particle rolling and crushing on the evolutions of the two types of anisotropy, i.e., anisotropy of particle packing (microstructure) and anisotropy of force chains, is investigated numerically using the discrete element method. To this end, the classical fabric tensor is adopted to describe the anisotropy of microstructure, while two …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Quasi-static and dynamic compression experiments are conducted on quartz sand, to study the stress-induced gradation evolution of granular materials under confined comminution. The particle size distributions obtained from laser diffractometry show three regimes, and the second regime is found to satisfy a power law or fractal distribution. …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073ZHANG Ke-fen, ZHANG Sheng, TENG Ji-dong, SHENG Dai-chao. Influences of self-organization of granular materials on particle crushing based on discrete element method[J]. Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 2018, 40(4): 743-751. DOI: 10.11779/CJGE201804019
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