eprintid: 1556456 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/55/64/56 datestamp: 2017-08-24 10:49:00 lastmod: 2021-12-16 23:28:52 status_changed: 2017-08-24 10:49:00 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Wang, W creators_name: Nardelli, V creators_name: Coop, MR title: The micro-mechanical behaviour of artificially cemented sand particles under compression and shear ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F44 keywords: Laboratory tests, particle-scale behaviour, sands note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The mechanical behaviour of cemented sands at macro-scale has been widely studied in the past, while there is still a lack of laboratory test data for the micro-mechanical response. Therefore, a series of uniaxial compression and tangential shear tests on artificially cemented sand particles have been conducted using a microscope to observe their behaviour. First, the consistency of cemented particles with different cementing agents is discussed. Three breakage modes are proposed according to the images taken using a microscope camera. A new parameter named ‘local roundness at contact’ is introduced to emphasise the effect of contact morphology on sample strength. Moreover, the effect of bond thickness on the mechanical response of cemented particles has been investigated. Finally, the shear strength parameters of artificially cemented sand samples have been determined for two different sample diameters. date: 2017-06-29 publisher: ICE Publishing Ltd. official_url: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.16.00166 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1294712 doi: 10.1680/jgele.16.00166 lyricists_name: Coop, Matthew Richard lyricists_id: MRCOO77 actors_name: Coop, Matthew Richard actors_id: MRCOO77 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Geotechnique Letters volume: 7 number: 3 pagerange: 1-7 issn: 2045-2543 citation: Wang, W; Nardelli, V; Coop, MR; (2017) The micro-mechanical behaviour of artificially cemented sand particles under compression and shear. Geotechnique Letters , 7 (3) pp. 1-7. 10.1680/jgele.16.00166 <https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.16.00166>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1556456/1/Geotechnique%20Letters-2017.pdf