A micro-investigation on water bridge effects for unsaturated granular materials with constant water content by discrete element method
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The most common state of surface soil is unsaturated. Changes in water content will substantially impact its strength, leading to geological and engineering catastrophes. This paper used LIGGGHTS software to simulate the water bridge effect of unsaturated granular materials with constant water content and verify the rationality of the simplification of the stress-force-fabric (SFF) relationship. The results showed that the capillary force was not isotropic, which was different from the previous study, thus it cannot be overlooked in the simplification of the SFF relationship. Moreover, the influence of water content on the macroscopic mechanical behavior of unsaturated granular materials was interpreted through the evolutions of coordination number, interparticle force, fabric and force anisotropy, and other microscopic parameters. Compared to the literature, we found that different water bridge models would not change the characteristics of the solid skeleton.
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OpenAlex topics: Landslides and related hazards · Soil and Unsaturated Flow · Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
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