Session M7

BEHAVIOR OF DRY AND PARTIALLY SATURATED GRANULAR MATERIALS
Thursday 3:20 - 5:00, ECCR 1B51

Session Chairs:  Ning Lu and Piere-Yves Hicher

3:20 P.-Y. Hicher and C.S. Chang, “An elastoplastic model for unsaturated granular materials with microstructural consolidation”

3:40 N. Lu and W.J. Likos, “Nature of matric suction in unsaturated soils”

4:00 H. Arslan and G. Baykal, “Implementation of sound analysis technique to analyze the influences of crushing on the behavior of granular materials”

4:20 A. Rechenmacher and O. Chupin, “Experimental study of characteristic length scales associated with localized shear in granular material”

4:40 J.A. Turner, W. Kang, F. Bobaru, K. Rattanadit, and L. Yang, “Effect of particle size on the vibration of plates loaded with granular material”