Grant number: TA501201 | Funding period: 2012 - 2014
Completed
RR Patel, D Valles, GA Riveros, DS Thompson, EJ Perkins, JJ Hoover, JF Peters, A Tordesillas
2018-12-01
Bio-structures have been optimized by nature to possess remarkable resiliency and strength yet retain a light-weight composition. ..
Antoinette Tordesillas, Zongzheng Zhou, Robin Batterham
2018-09-01
Landslides are a common natural disaster that claims countless lives and causes huge devastation to infrastructure and the environ..
Joost H van der Linden, Adnan Sufian, Guillermo A Narsilio, Adrian R Russell, Antoinette Tordesillas
2018-03-01
Pore network construction provides the ability to characterize and study the pore space of inhomogeneous and geometrically complex..
S Kahagalage, A Tordesillas, M Nitka, J Tejchman
2017-06-30
Using data from discrete element simulations, we develop a data analytics approach using network flow theory to study force transm..
Z Zhou, A Tordesillas
The underlying microstructure and dynamics of a dense granular material as it evolves towards the "critical state", a limit state ..
S Pucilowski, A Tordesillas, G Froyland
In transitive metastable chaotic dynamical systems, there are no invariant neighbourhoods in the phase space. The best that one ca..
J Van Der Linden, A Tordesillas, G Narsilio
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017. A perennial challenge for the characterization and modelling of phenomena involvin..
Elaheh Kashizadeh, Abhijit Mukherjee, Antoinette Tordesillas
2017-01-01
Nature aggregates granular materials such as sand, silt and clay into form beach rocks, anthills and other forms of microbialites...
David M Walker, Antoinette Tordesillas, Matthew R Kuhn
Force chains within a granular material are the major load carriers responsible for the strength of a material. The authors study ..
Joost H van der Linden, Guillermo A Narsilio, Antoinette Tordesillas
2016-08-17
We present a data-driven framework to study the relationship between fluid flow at the macroscale and the internal pore structure,..
Antoinette Tordesillas, Sebastian Pucilowski, Qun Lin, John F Peters, Robert P Behringer
2016-05-01
We relate the micromechanics of vortex evolution to that of force chain buckling and, on this basis, formulate the conditions for ..
Scott Russell, David M Walker, Antoinette Tordesillas
2016-03-01
A framework for the multiscale characterization of the coupled evolution of the solid grain fabric and its associated pore space i..
Antoinette Tordesillas, Steven T Tobin, Mehmet Cil, Khalid Alshibli, Robert P Behringer
2015-06-08
An established aspect of force transmission in quasistatic deformation of granular media is the existence of a dual network of str..
Antoinette Tordesillas, Sebastian Pucilowski, Steven Tobin, Matthew R Kuhn, Edward Ando, Gioacchino Viggiani, Andrew Druckrey, Khalid Alshibli
2015-06-01
The formation of shear bands is a key attribute of degradation and failure in soil, rocks, and many other forms of amorphous and c..
F Nicot, N Hadda, F Bourrier, L Sibille, A Tordesillas, F Darve
2015-01-01
This paper examines the evolution of instabilities in granular materials from a microscopic point of view, using the discrete elem..
David M Walker, Antoinette Tordesillas, Amy L Rechenmacher, Michael Small
2014-03-17
JE Hilton, PW Cleary, A Tordesillas
2013-01-01
The dynamics of granular beds subject to applied stresses are often characterised by repeated cycles of stick-slip motion. The exa..
A Tordesillas, J Shi
2000-01-01
The resulting flow and deformation of a semi-infinite granular material under a rolling, smooth rigid circular cylinder is investi..
1999-01-01
The frictional indentation of a semi-infinite dilatant granular mass is examined assuming plane strain conditions. Complete soluti..
JM Hill, J Shi, A Tordesillas, YH Wu
For the problem of indentation of a granular half-space by a smooth rigid punch, an alternative velocity field is obtained for she..
C Loudon, A Tordesillas
1998-03-07
Dimensionless numbers are very useful in characterizing mechanical behavior because their magnitude can often be interpreted as th..
1998-01-01
Presented herein is a complete solution to the normal plane strain indentation of a double shearing dilatant granular material by ..
JM Hill, AA Tordesillas
1992-01-01
The rolling contact problem involving circular cylinders is at the heart of numerous industrial processes, and critical to any ela..
AA Tordesillas, JM Hill
1991-07-01
The roller coating system used in industry to apply paint to sheet metal involves two contacting rolling cylinders, one of which i..
JM Hill, A Tordesillas
1989-11-01
In many industrial processes involving rolling cylinders in contact, knowledge of the contact pressure in the nip region is often ..