Comment on: Influence of inter-granular void ratio on monotonic and cyclic undrained shear response of sandy soils by M. Belkhatir, A. Arab, H. Missoum, T. Schanz [C. R. Mecanique 338 (2010) 290-303]
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2011
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Rahman, M.M.
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Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, 2011; 339(1):58-62
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The authors should be commended for their interesting experimental work on sandy soils presented in Belkhatir et al. (2010) [1]. They used the inter-granular void ratio, es , to interpret the experimental results and developed some useful correlations with es . However, the Note fails to address the further development of es over a decade to a more generalized form of equivalent granular void ratio, e∗. This comment aims at adding missing literature on e∗ and presents a re-interpretation of the experimental data based on e∗. The advantages of using e∗ over es are significant and explained in subsequent sections.
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Copyright 2010 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS