Micromechanics of Granular Materials - Proceedings of the U.S./Japan Seminar on the Micromechanics of Granular Materials, Sendai-Zao, Japan, October 26–30, 1987

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Stereological estimation of microstructures in materials (K. Kanatani). Morphological analysis of particulate materials (J.K. Beddow). The microgeometry of dense random packings (H.J. Frost). Experiments on disc arrays: coordination and void entropies (C.B. Brown). A note on fabric in terms of voids (J. Konishi, F. Naruse). Some considerations on shearing resistance angles of sands (N. Moroto). Measurement of the bulk density structure of granular materials in a powder vessel (K. Makino, K. Kuramitsu). Consideration on the stress-dilatancy equation through the work increment tensor (M. Satake). A simple theory of instantaneously induced anisotropy (S.C. Cowin). Introduction of inherent anisotropy of soils in the yield function (M. Oda, H. Nakayama). Is the fabric tensor sufficient? (H. Horii, K. Sahasakmontri). Dynamic shear moduli and their relationship to fabric of granular materials (I. Ishibashi, Y.C. Chen). A discrete limit analysis of granular materials including effects of the solid contact (N. Takeuchi, T. Kawai). Computer simulations of dense sphere assemblies (P.A. Cundall). Granular assembly simulation for ground collapse (K. Iwashita et al.). Applications of theoretical contact mechanics to solid particle system simulations (C. Thornton, C.W. Randall). Disc model analysis of granular media (Y. Kishino). Particle-dynamics calculations of gravity flow of inelastic, frictional spheres (O.R. Walton et al.). Boundary interactions for two-dimensional granular flows: Asymmetric stresses and couple stresses (C.S. Campbell). Description of cyclic deformation behaviour of sand by an anisotropic hardening model (E. Yanagisawa, Y. Tobita). Modeling of cyclic behaviour of sand in multi-directional shear (Y. Yamada). Plasticity approach to sand behaviour under principal stress axes rotation (I. Towhata et al.). Effect of fabric on liquefaction and densification of saturated soil: experiments and theory (S. Nemat-Nasser). The validity of the effective stress concept in soil mechanics (F. Oka). Stress analysis on the compaction of granular materials by FEM (T. Nagao et al.). Application of Markov model to K o -compression and consolidation of particulate material (R. Kitamura, M. Shinchi). Distributed disturbance and constraint in soils (O.O. Ogunbekun et al.). Volume change in small strain axisymmetric deformations of a granular material (J.T. Jenkins). Some basic theoretical and experimental results on micromechanics of granular flow (M.M. Mehrabadi et al.). Contact tensor in constitutive model for granular materials (Y. Tobita, E. Yanagisawa). Micromechanical modelling of constitutive relations for granular materials (C.S. Chang). New optimality theory in nature and coaxiality between stress and strain increment tensors (S. Niiseki). A constitutive model for granular materials evaluating principal stress rotation (H. Matsuoka et al.). A unified mechanical quantity for granular materials in three-dimensional stresses (T. Nakai).