Abstract
The present paper aims to compare the behaviour of dense granular soils inside and outside the Shear Band (SB) during the Plane Strain Compression (PSC) test using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). The flexible membrane in the PSC test was modelled by adopting a discrete element–finite difference (DEM-FDM) hybrid approach. In contrast with previous 2D studies, the present study employed 3D simulations to consider the effects of out-of-plane characteristics such as the intermediate principal stress. According to the findings, the minimum and intermediate principal stresses outside the SB were twice as high as those inside at the residual state. It was also found that mechanical coordination numbers and redundancy indexes both inside and outside the SB decreased up to the onset of the residual phase, with a higher reduction rate inside the SB. As far as fabric anisotropy is concerned, the degree of anisotropy increased both in and out the SB until the peak state, with a somewhat higher rate inside the SB. A further finding was that the distribution of normal contact forces outside the SB remained symmetrical around the vertical axis after shear banding, however, it became asymmetrical inside the SB.
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