TY - GEN
T1 - Instability of geomaterials caused by transitional negative stiffness
AU - Dyskin, Arcady
AU - Pasternak, Elena
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - A mechanism of instability of geomaterials in compression is proposed based on the phenomenon of transitional negative stiffness associated with the process of crack/fracture formation. This phenomenon acts only for a very short time as the fracture is being formed. The negative stiffness cracks increase the Poisson’s ratio and thus are capable of making nearly incompressible material elastically unstable. A geomaterial can reach the limiting value of the incremental Poisson’s ratio due to dilatancy observed in compression. While dilatancy is a non-linear phenomenon, incrementally, at the time of fracture formation it is elastic and hence can be made unstable by the transitional negative stiffness. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
AB - A mechanism of instability of geomaterials in compression is proposed based on the phenomenon of transitional negative stiffness associated with the process of crack/fracture formation. This phenomenon acts only for a very short time as the fracture is being formed. The negative stiffness cracks increase the Poisson’s ratio and thus are capable of making nearly incompressible material elastically unstable. A geomaterial can reach the limiting value of the incremental Poisson’s ratio due to dilatancy observed in compression. While dilatancy is a non-linear phenomenon, incrementally, at the time of fracture formation it is elastic and hence can be made unstable by the transitional negative stiffness. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_75
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_75
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 9783319563961
T3 - Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering
SP - 599
EP - 604
BT - Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials with Engineering Applications
A2 - Papamichos, Euripides
A2 - Papanastasiou, Panos
A2 - Pasternak, Elena
A2 - Dyskin, Arcady
PB - Springer
CY - Netherlands
T2 - 11th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials
Y2 - 21 May 2017 through 25 May 2017
ER -