Authors: A Ozbay A F Cabalar
Publish Date: 2016/07/07
Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 60-
Abstract
Some granular materials including spherical glass beads may suffer from stickslip instabilities which are characterized by successive fluctuations in the stress–strain behavior Under various loading conditions these stickslip failures cause a portion of the stored strain energy within the granular medium to be suddenly released It is accompanied by a partial collapse and volumetric contraction occurring at the same time In order to understand the factors behind the stickslip mechanism a series of laboratory experiments were carried out in this study Cylindrical specimens constituted by dry looselypacked spherical glass beads were tested in triaxial compression The effects of confining pressure and strain rate on stickslip behavior were investigated The experimental results show that as the confining pressure is increased both the deviatoric stress amplitude and the oscillation amplitude increase On the other hand any increase in the strain rate causes the deviatoric stress amplitude to decrease However the oscillation amplitude is not affected by the strain rate
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