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loading. However, it is inferior to the model of Ghaboussi and Momen in the case of<br />

description of the behaviour of materials with hysteresis under the conditions of cycling<br />

loading. Nevertheless, its s<strong>im</strong>plicity and mathematical coherence make it a highly<br />

useful tool for modeling the plastic flow of granular materials.<br />

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Fig. 2.3. Comparisons of calculated and measured stress-strain relations in triaxial compression<br />

tests of wheat grain samples [175]<br />

3. MICROSTRUCTURAL APPROACH. DEM MODELLING<br />

3.1. Geometric structure of granular medium<br />

The results of geotechnical studies have shown that natural sand deposits formed<br />

under the effect of gravity are usually anisotropic. Allen [2] proved that in the course<br />

of sand deposit formation grains of sand tend to orient themselves so that their long<br />

axes are parallel to the horizontal plane. The result of this is the formation of deposits<br />

with a high degree of geometric arrangement of particles. Oda [126] became interested<br />

in the effect of the anisotropy of a deposit on its mechanical properties. He conducted a<br />

series of laboratory tests on sand samples. The author showed that knowledge of the<br />

structure of particle packing is necessary for the determination of the stability of noncohesive<br />

soils subjected to external loads. Mechanical phenomena, such as the<br />

anisotropy of response to loading, stress-strain relations, strain hardening, strength and<br />

porosity, turned out to be dependent on the structure of packing [127-129]. Ever<br />

since those exper<strong>im</strong>ents it has been known that two samples of the same sand with the

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