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Journal of Mining Sciences

2013 year, number 6

Horizontal Stress Coefficient of Random Discrete Element Packing

S. V. KLISHIN, O. A. MIKENINA
N.A. Chinakal Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnyi pr. 54, Novosibirsk, 630091 Russia
Keywords: stress state, horizontal stress, continuum model, rock, continuum, granular material, numerical analysis, discrete element method

Abstract

The authors study numerically the stress–strain state of a discrete material under biaxial loading in the three-dimensional case. It is shown that the Drucker–Prager continuum relation is valid for the two-dimensional case at the early yielding stage.