Granular Materials

Selected publications
R. CONTI, C TAMAGNINI, A DESIMONE: Critical softening in Cam-Clay plasticity: Adaptive viscous regularization, dilated time and numerical integration across stress-strain jump discontinuities. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2013.
G. DAL MASO, A. DESIMONE: Quasistatic evolution for Cam-Clay plasticity: examples of spatially homogeneous solutions. M3AS, Vol. 19, p. 1643 (2009). (pdf)
A DESIMONE, C TAMAGNINI: Stress-dilatancy based modelling of granular materials and extensions to soils with crushable grains. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 29, p.73 (2005) (pdf)
M CECCONI, A DESIMONE, C TAMAGNINI, G VIGGIANI: A constitutive model for granular materials with grain crushing and its application to a pyroclastic soil. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 26, p.1531 (2002) (pdf)