Factors affecting pre-failure instability of sand under plane-strain conditions

• Main Authors: Wanatowski, D., Chu, Jian
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79890; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11645
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Experimental data obtained from a plane-strain apparatus are presented in this paper to show that a pre-failure instability in the form of a rapid and sustained increase in strain rate can occur for both contractive and dilative sand under fully drained conditions. However, this type of instability...