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Effects of Flooding on Crushable Sand

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Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium (IWBDG 2014)

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We carried out compression tests on crushable sand to study the effect of creep and relaxation after flooding. We show that there is a consistent framework linking the breakage ratio with the compressibility, which could be useful to develop constitutive models.

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  1. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Carlos Ovalle

  2. LUNAM University, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, CNRS UM, 6183, Nantes, France

    Christophe Dano, Pierre-Yves Hicher & Mónica Cisternas

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Kam-Tim Chau

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jidong Zhao

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Ovalle, C., Dano, C., Hicher, PY., Cisternas, M. (2015). Effects of Flooding on Crushable Sand. In: Chau, KT., Zhao, J. (eds) Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium. IWBDG 2014. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13506-9_14

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