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Unstable Creeping in Geomaterials

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Time plays a dominant role in many areas of geomechanics, such as in the assessment of landslide hazard and territorial vulnerability. In this context, the reliable description of the temporal evolution of both soil mass movements and their dependence on loading rate effects is deemed crucial. From a theoretical standpoint, the time-dependent behaviour of geomaterials can be described by means of viscoplastic constitutive theories, also beneficial to foster the objectivity of numerical results from strain localisation simulations. However, not all the aspects of viscoplastic modelling have been so far clearly acknowledged in the literature. For this reason, in this paper the authors focus on creeping strain localization phenomena under simple shear conditions, discussing, from a theoretical point of view, the mechanical condition to be satisfied for tertiary creep to occur.

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  1. Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Claudio di Prisco

  2. Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands

    Federico Pisanò

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki Department of Civil Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Euripides Papamichos

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental En, University of Cyprus Department of Civil and Environmental En, Nicos, Cyprus

    Panos Papanastasiou

  3. School of Mechanical & Chemical Engg, University of Western Australia School of Mechanical & Chemical Engg, Crawley, West Australia, Australia

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    Arcady Dyskin

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di Prisco, C., Pisanò, F. (2017). Unstable Creeping in Geomaterials. In: Papamichos, E., Papanastasiou, P., Pasternak, E., Dyskin, A. (eds) Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials with Engineering Applications. IWBDG 2017. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_18

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