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GEOTECHNIQUE LETTERS
卷 2, 期 -, 页码 155-160出版社
ICE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1680/geolett.12.00025
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compressibility; numerical modelling; particle crushing/crushability
The particle sizes in large rockfill structures such as dams prevent laboratory testing. The prediction of field behaviour requires the development of models that integrate size effects. A distinct element method model was developed in which grains are characterised by aggregations of a maximum of 14 elementary spherical particles (the resulting particle shape approaches real geometries and allows a reasonable breakage evolution) and the particle breakage criterion involves the subcritical propagation of fissures in the grain. Time effects are included through the velocity of crack propagation, a function of stress state and defect size, which is introduced as a random set of varying lengths. The model was used to simulate the stress-strain response, the evolution of grain size distribution and creep behaviour under oedometric conditions. The model has been used to simulate size effects in the range 0.28-56.0 cm of initial particle size (uniform distributions were tested). Compressibility and creep were partially validated by comparing calculations with test results covering a reduced range of particles. The paper presents the evolution of short-term compressibility and creep indices in terms of particle size. The model is a useful and novel tool with which to extrapolate laboratory results from scaled grain size distributions to prototype dimensions.
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