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Shear Band: Narrow Intense Shearing Zones Occurs Due To Localization

Shear bands form in sands due to localized shear strains, and their thickness is around 15 times the particle size. The formation of shear bands depends on properties like porosity, grain size, shape, and inherent anisotropy. Cross-anisotropic sands have identical properties within the horizontal plane but different properties between vertical planes, which generally occurs due to natural deposition by gravity. A torsion shear apparatus can apply three-dimensional stresses with rotating principal axes and control individual principal stresses, while a true triaxial apparatus controls all three principal stresses on a cubical sample. Experimental results on shear banding in sands fall between the Coulomb and Arthur theoretical expressions.

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Shear Band: Narrow Intense Shearing Zones Occurs Due To Localization

Shear bands form in sands due to localized shear strains, and their thickness is around 15 times the particle size. The formation of shear bands depends on properties like porosity, grain size, shape, and inherent anisotropy. Cross-anisotropic sands have identical properties within the horizontal plane but different properties between vertical planes, which generally occurs due to natural deposition by gravity. A torsion shear apparatus can apply three-dimensional stresses with rotating principal axes and control individual principal stresses, while a true triaxial apparatus controls all three principal stresses on a cubical sample. Experimental results on shear banding in sands fall between the Coulomb and Arthur theoretical expressions.

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Shear Band : Narrow Intense Shearing Zones occurs due to localization

of the shear strains.Shear Bands in Sands are Visible and their thickness
is 15 times the particle size. Formation of Shear bands depends upon
Porosity, grain size and shape or inherent anisotropy of the material.
Cross-Anisotropy of the sand means the properties are identical in all
directions within the horizontal plane and different from those of vertical
planes. Cross anisotropy generally occurs in the natural deposition of the
sand due to gravity.
B value ranges from 0.18 to 0.85 then shear banding occurs in the
hardening regime while it occurs in softening regime outside this range
Torsion Shear Apparatus:
3 dimensional stresses with principal stress rotation axes can be applied.
All the three principal stresses can be controlled individually. In this
equipment the strains on the edges are different than the centre of the
soil specimen.
Hollow Cylindrical Specimen is used with dimensions.
Total 34 Drained Torsion Shear were performed.
26 were performed on the tall specimens and 8 were performed on
short soil sample to investigate the effect of the specimen height on
the soil behaviour
Out of 26 14 were perfomed on primary loading to investigate the
effect of stress rotation
8 were performed to investigate the soil behavior on largre stresses
I1,I3 are stress variants
True Triaxial Apparatus:
The difference between true triaxial and conventional triaxial
apparatus is In a conventional triaxial test, only two principal stresses
are controlledthe axial stress (1) and the confining stress (3). The
intermediate principal stress (2) is assumed to be equal to the
confining pressure but in true triaxial test all the three principal
stresses are individually controlled and are applied on a cubical or
prismatic sample in three directions.
13: Although thin line is drawn from the upper friction angle when
compare to the thick line it is substantially different at higher b-value,
this is due to cross anisotropic behavior of the pluviated sand deposit.

Plain Strain : In Plain Strain State the soil the deformation of soil is
considered to be approximately zero in one direction and soil is free to
deform in other two directions.
14: from b=0 to b=0.3 upto plain strain the frictio angles of true triaxial
test and torsion shear tests are almost the same.
The friction angle in the thick line that is True triaxial failure condition
increases from b=0.3 to 0.8 followed by a small decrease close to
b=1.0.
15: In true triaxial criterion the shear banding occurs in the hardening
regime from b=0.18 to 0.85.
In torsion shear test the shear banding occurs in the softening regime
just before the plain strain conditions.
During Shear banding there could be abrupt decrease in load carrying
ability and clear visible effects in stress strain and volume change
relations.
C=Angle between shear band direction of minor principal stress

Roscoe expresses in terms of angle of dilation


Angle of dilation is ratio of the plastic volumetric strain to the max
plastic shear strain
17: experimental results are located between coloumb and Arthur
expressions

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