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Fabric: A Missing Link Between Critical State and Critical State Theory

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The Critical State Theory of Roscoe et al. [1] and Schofield and Wroth [2], proposed two analytical conditions as necessary and sufficient for soil to reach and maintain Critical State. In this work the sufficiency of these two conditions is challenged by the results of a virtual experiment performed by means of the Discrete Element Method, where stress principal axes rotation is imposed at Critical State of a granular sample. The fabric emerges as the important entity that can explain the lack of sufficiency of the two conditions and serve as a link between Critical State Theory and Critical State as a physical event. The recently developed Anisotropic Critical State Theory includes an additional condition on fabric, that combined with the classical two provide a triplet of necessary and sufficient conditions for reaching and maintaining Critical State.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC IDEAS Grant Agreement n 290963 (SOMEF) and partial support by NSF project CMMI-1162096. The paper is submitted on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Professor G. Gudehus.

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  1. School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    A. I. Theocharis, E. Vairaktaris & Y. F. Dafalias

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Y. F. Dafalias

  3. School of Civil Engineering, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    A. G. Papadimitriou

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Theocharis, A.I., Vairaktaris, E., Dafalias, Y.F., Papadimitriou, A.G. (2019). Fabric: A Missing Link Between Critical State and Critical State Theory. In: Wu, W. (eds) Desiderata Geotechnica. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14987-1_24

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