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Constitutive Equations for Granular Materials in Geomechanical Context

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Continuum Mechanics in Environmental Sciences and Geophysics

Part of the book series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ((CISM,volume 337))

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This lecture outlines the possibilities of porous media theories in describing granular materials in geomechanical context as, for example, saturated or unsaturated soils or granular rocks, etc. In the present investigations, porous media theories are referred to as classical mixture theories extended by the concept of volume fractions. This approach, assuming statistically distributed and superimposed continua with internal interactions, implies the diverse field functions of both the porous solid matrix and the respective pore contents to be represented by average functions of the macroscale.

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Ehlers, W. (1993). Constitutive Equations for Granular Materials in Geomechanical Context. In: Hutter, K. (eds) Continuum Mechanics in Environmental Sciences and Geophysics. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 337. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2600-4_4

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