Ma. Tripodi et al., TRIAXIAL TESTING OF DRY, COHESIVE POWDER AND ITS APPLICATION TO A MODIFIED CAM-CLAY CONSTITUTIVE MODEL, Powder technology, 80(1), 1994, pp. 35-43
Triaxial tests were performed on wheat flour to determine the constitu
tive parameters for a modified Cam-clay model. This elastoplastic mode
l consists of three critical-state parameters: lambda, kappa, and M. A
dditionally, there are two parameters representing the initial conditi
ons of a material: e0 and p(c). All critical-state parameters were det
ermined directly from four different triaxial tests: drained compressi
on, undrained compression, constant mean effective stress and hydrosta
tic compression. The material parameters for the tested wheat flour, f
ollowing standard statistical techniques, were: lambda = 0.13, kappa =
0.022 and M = 2.1. The model was tested by comparing model-calculated
deformation under triaxial loading conditions identical to those used
to determine the parameters. The comparisons between the modified Cam
-clay model calculated values and measured values showed that drained
triaxial compression tests and constant mean effective stress tests we
re within the 95% confidence interval. The investigation proved that (
1) standard triaxial tests and constitutive models can be successfully
applied to dry, cohesive powders, and (2) constitutive parameters def
ined in soils models can be determined for dry powders by modifying th
e parameter determination procedure.