Influence of crystal structure on constitutive anisotropy of silica sand at particle-scale
Abstract
In spite of recent advanced geotechnical research regarding the influence of particle-scale morphology and fabric on the constitutive behavior of silica sands, there is still no published literature that investigated the influence of crystal structure of sand particles on their constitutive behavior. The main constituent of silica sand particles is quartz mineral, which has a trigonal crystal system and hexagonal lattice. This paper investigates the influence of quartz crystal structure on the constitutive response of silica sand particles using 3D X-ray diffraction (3DXRD), synchrotron micro-computed tomography (SMT), and 3D finite element (FE) analysis. Here, unconfined uniaxial compression experiments on single particles of synthetic silica cubes exposed the notion of constitutive anisotropy caused by the crystal structure of quartz. Since the silica cubes have simple regular geometry (1 mm)3, they were loaded in different directions with respect to their crystal local planes. The crystal structure was also identified for a natural silica sand specimen composed of 2705 particles and loaded in confined uniaxial compression. Physical limitations of the experimental measurements made a strong case for the use of 3D FE analysis to study how the change in crystal local orientation of individual sand particles can fundamentally produce anisotropy in the constitutivemore »
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[1];
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1756429
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; CMMI-1362510
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Computers and Geotechnics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 126; Journal ID: ISSN 0266-352X
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; constitutive anisotropy; crystal quartz; finite element analysis; silica sand; x-ray 27 tomography; x-ray diffraction
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Imseeh, Wadi H., Alshibli, Khalid A., Moslehy, Amirsalar, Kenesei, Peter, and Sharma, Hemant. Influence of crystal structure on constitutive anisotropy of silica sand at particle-scale. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103718.
Imseeh, Wadi H., Alshibli, Khalid A., Moslehy, Amirsalar, Kenesei, Peter, & Sharma, Hemant. Influence of crystal structure on constitutive anisotropy of silica sand at particle-scale. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103718
Imseeh, Wadi H., Alshibli, Khalid A., Moslehy, Amirsalar, Kenesei, Peter, and Sharma, Hemant. Fri .
"Influence of crystal structure on constitutive anisotropy of silica sand at particle-scale". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103718. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1756429.
@article{osti_1756429,
title = {Influence of crystal structure on constitutive anisotropy of silica sand at particle-scale},
author = {Imseeh, Wadi H. and Alshibli, Khalid A. and Moslehy, Amirsalar and Kenesei, Peter and Sharma, Hemant},
abstractNote = {In spite of recent advanced geotechnical research regarding the influence of particle-scale morphology and fabric on the constitutive behavior of silica sands, there is still no published literature that investigated the influence of crystal structure of sand particles on their constitutive behavior. The main constituent of silica sand particles is quartz mineral, which has a trigonal crystal system and hexagonal lattice. This paper investigates the influence of quartz crystal structure on the constitutive response of silica sand particles using 3D X-ray diffraction (3DXRD), synchrotron micro-computed tomography (SMT), and 3D finite element (FE) analysis. Here, unconfined uniaxial compression experiments on single particles of synthetic silica cubes exposed the notion of constitutive anisotropy caused by the crystal structure of quartz. Since the silica cubes have simple regular geometry (1 mm)3, they were loaded in different directions with respect to their crystal local planes. The crystal structure was also identified for a natural silica sand specimen composed of 2705 particles and loaded in confined uniaxial compression. Physical limitations of the experimental measurements made a strong case for the use of 3D FE analysis to study how the change in crystal local orientation of individual sand particles can fundamentally produce anisotropy in the constitutive response of natural sand specimens. The 3D FE analysis was validated to accurately model the crystal-based constitutive anisotropy in silica particles using the results of the silica cube experiments. The analysis was then executed on 3D FE meshes that closely matched the physical shape and fabric of the 2705 particles in the natural sand specimen. Both the experiments and 3D FE analysis showed that the crystal structure of quartz essentially causes a directional anisotropy in the constitutive behavior of silica particles.},
doi = {10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103718},
journal = {Computers and Geotechnics},
number = ,
volume = 126,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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