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Estimation of Sand Grains Crushing Rate Under Uniaxial Compression Loading

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Abstract

Understanding and controlling of granular materials behaviour require knowledge of their characteristics and the phenomenon associated with them. Among the most complex and poorly understood phenomena for granular media is the phenomenon of grain breakage and its influence on the overall macroscopic behaviour of these media during loading, during the implementation or operation of structures. The knowledge of grain crushing mechanisms and the evolution of the granular distribution inside granular materials under loads is a unifying research topic involving several disciplines. As many lines of investigation such as physical experimentation, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and numerical simulations today allow us to address the complexity of this phenomenon. This work focuses on the study of the sand grains crushing under uniaxial compression loading. The study consists of quantifying the rate of grains crushing from the observation of the granulometric curves evolution under different values of compression stress. A coefficient that considers the rupture of the grains under uniaxial loading is proposed.

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RS, TK and AT contributed to the conception and design of the article; RS carried out the tests, interpreted the results of the experimental tests, and analysed the data assisted by TK. RS wrote the first version of the manuscript; AT and TK guided and supervised the research work and commented on the previous version of the manuscript. All of the authors have read and accepted the published version of the manuscript.

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Sedira, R., Kheffache, T. & Tahakourt, A. Estimation of Sand Grains Crushing Rate Under Uniaxial Compression Loading. Indian Geotech J (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40098-023-00800-w

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