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Collapse of granular material is usually accompanied by long run-out granular flows in natural hazards, e.g. rock/debris flow and snow avalanches. This paper presents a novel multi-scale approach for modelling granular column collapse with large deformation. This approach employs the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method to solve large deformation boundary value problems, while using a micromechanical model to derive the nonlinear material response required by the SPH method. After examining the effect of initial cell size, the proposed approach is subsequently applied to simulate the flow of granular column in a rectangular channel at a low water content by varying the initial aspect ratio. The numerical results show good agreement with various experimental observations on both collapse process and final deposit morphology. Furthermore, the meso-scale behaviour is also captured owing to the advantages of the micromechanical model. Finally, it was demonstrated that the novel multi-scale approach is helpful in improving the understanding of granular collapse and should be an effective computational tool for the analysis of real-scale granular flow.
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The financial support provided by the GRF project (Grant No. 15209119) and the RIF project (Grant No. R5037-18F) from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong is gratefully acknowledged. We also gratefully acknowledge the CNRS International Research Network GeoMech for having offered the opportunity to make this project possible through a long-term collaboration of all the authors (http://gdr-mege.univ-lr.fr/).
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Appendix 1: Contact law
Appendix 1: Contact law
This elastic-perfect plastic model includes a Mohr–Coulomb criterion and can be expressed under the following incremental formalism:
where: \(i=1,2,3,4\) denotes the identifier of contact number.
According to Eqs. (8), (38) can be rewritten as follows:
where: \(\xi _i\) is the sign of \({T_i} + {k_t}{d_i}\delta {\alpha _j}\); \(j=1\) when \(i=1,2\); \(j=2\) when \(i=3,4\); plastic regime is reached when \(\parallel {k_t}{d_i}\delta {\alpha _j}+T_i\parallel \geqslant \tan \varphi _g \left( {N_i} - {k_n}\delta {d_i}\right) \), otherwise it is in elastic regime.
To facilitate the derivation, \(I_i^p\) and \(I_i^e\) are introduced as indicator functions of the contact state, expressed as follow:
Thus, the constitutive relations can be expressed as:
where:\( \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {A_i} = I_i^p {k_n}{\xi _i}\tan {\varphi _g}\\ {B_i} = I_i^e {k_t}{d_i}\\ C_i=I_i^p(\xi _i \tan \varphi _g N_i - T_i) \end{array}\right. \)
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Xiong, H., Yin, ZY., Nicot, F. et al. A novel multi-scale large deformation approach for modelling of granular collapse. Acta Geotech. 16, 2371–2388 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-020-01113-5
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