Three Comments on
"A Simple Incremental Modelling of Granular-Media Mechanics"
Abstract: Using the recent incremental modelling, it is shown that the
trajectory of a sample in the phase space of soil mechanics in the vicinity of
the critical state is not governed by the rigidity matrix, but by its
variations. The characteristics are used to predict that Young modulus tends to
0 as s1/s2-M-1 near the critical point. An attempt to
understand and predict unstable behaviours is done using the same modelling.
Compatibility of this modelling with results on soil liquefaction is
emphasised.
poudres & grains 10, 1-5 ( décembre 1999)