NDLI: Attenuation in sand: an exploratory study on the small-strain behavior and the influence of moisture condensation

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Author	Wang, Y. H. Santamarina, J. C.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	The loss mechanisms responsible for the observed attenuation in soils are often unclear and controversial. This is particularly the case with the small-strain damping D min in air-dry sands. Ultimately, physical explanations must accommodate the observed effects of confinement, strain level, frequency, and load repetition. Three hypotheses are explored herein: measurement bias, thermoelastic relaxation, and adsorbed layers. Micro and macro-scale experimentation using photoelasticity, thermal infrared imaging, atomic force microscopy and resonant column testing are complemented with conceptual analyses. Results show that Mindlin-contact friction cannot explain the observed response of the small-strain damping ratio D min and thermoelastic loss is suggested. While thermoelastic relaxation is inherently frequency dependent, the superposition of multiple internal scales in soils can justify the observed low dependency on frequency. Moisture condensation leads to adsorbed water layers on grain surfaces, which has a small but observable effect on shear modulus and a significant influence on damping ratio. Participating loss mechanisms at small-strains may involve distortion and motion of adsorbed layers and hydration force hysteresis. Hysteretic capillary breakage at contacting asperities gains relevance when the strain exceeds the elastic threshold strain; this strain coincides with the strain range when frictional losses begin to dominate. Finally, the damping ratio in air-dry sands is very small, and causality-based attenuation–dispersion relations predict modulus dispersion about 1% per log cycle, therefore the medium can be considered non-dispersive for practical purposes.
Starting Page	365
Ending Page	376
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14345021
Journal	Granular Matter
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	14347636
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-08-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Damping ratio Sands Microscale Capillary force Resonant column AFM Thermoelasticity Counter emf Relative humidity Engineering Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Structural Foundations, Hydraulic Engineering Engineering Fluid Dynamics Granular Media
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physics and Astronomy Mechanics of Materials Materials Science

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