Numerical study of one-dimensional compression of granular materials. II. Elastic moduli, stresses, and microstructure.

The elastic moduli of a transversely isotropic model granular material, made of slightly polydisperse elastic-frictional spherical beads, in equilibrium along a one-dimensional (oedometric) compression path, as described in the companion paper [M. H. Khalili et al.

Numerical study of one-dimensional compression of granular materials. I. Stress-strain behavior, microstructure, and irreversibility.

The behavior of a model granular material, made of slightly polydisperse beads with Hertz-Mindlin elastic-frictional contacts, in oedometric compression (i.e., compression along one axis, with no lateral strain) is studied by grain-level numerical simulations.

Small-angle scattering of dense, polydisperse granular porous media: computation free of size effects.

Small-angle x-ray and neutrons scattering is a widespread experimental tool for the investigation of the microstructure of random heterogeneous materials. Validation of (computer-generated) model microstructures often requires the numerical computation of the scattering intensity, which must be carried out with great care due to finite size effects. In this paper, a new method for this computation is presented.