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Selected Publications and Abstracts

Journal Articles

  1. Muthuswamy M and Tordesillas A (2006) "How do interparticle contact friction, packing density and degree of polydispersity affect force propagation in particulate assemblies?" Journal of Statistical Mechanics - Theory and Experiment, P09003
  2. Walsh SDC, Tordesillas A and Peters JF (2006) "Development of micromechanical models for granular media: The projection problem" Granular Matter (in press)
  3. Gardiner B and Tordesillas A (2006) "The effects of particle size distribution based on a 3D homogenisation scheme for micropolar media" Powder Technology, 161, 110-121
  4. Muthuswamy M and Tordesillas A (2006) "Uncovering the secrets to relieving stress: discrete element analysis of force chains" ANZIAM Journal, 47, C355-C372
  5. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A, (2006) "Finite element methods for micropolar models of granular materials" Applied Mathematical Modelling 30,1043-1055
  6. Peters JP, Muthuswamy M, Wibowo J and Tordesillas A, (2005) "Characterization of force chains in granular material". Physical Review E, 72(4), 041307.
  7. Tordesillas A and Arber D (2005) "Capturing the S in segregation: a simple model of flowing granular mixtures in rotating drums" International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 36, 861-877
  8. Gardiner B and Tordesillas A (2005) "The link between discrete and continuous modelling of liquid foam at the level of a single bubble" Journal of Rheology 49, 808-819
  9. Tordesillas A, Peters JP and Muthuswamy M (2005) "Role of particle rotations and rolling resistance in a semi-infinite particulate solid indented by a rigid flat punch" ANZIAM Journal 46(E), C260-C275
  10. Gardiner B and Tordesillas A (2005) "Micromechanical constitutive modelling of granular media: evolution and loss of contact in particle clusters" Journal of Engineering Mathematics 52, 93-106
  11. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A (2005) "A thermomechanical formulation of finite element schemes for micropolar continua" ANZIAM Journal 46(E), C336-C350
  12. Tordesillas A, Peters JF and Gardiner B (2004) "Insights on 1D localisation theory and micromechanical constitutive laws" Geotechnique 54, 1-4
  13. Gardiner B and Tordesillas A. (2004) "Micromechanics of shear bands" International Journal of Solids and Structures 41, 5885-5901
  14. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A (2004) "A thermomechanical approach to the development of micropolar constitutive models for granular media" Acta Mechanica 167(3-4), 145-169
  15. Tordesillas A, Walsh SDC and Gardiner B (2004) "Bridging the length scales: micromechanics of granular media" BIT Numerical Mathematics 44, 539-556
  16. Tordesillas A, Peters JF and Gardiner B (2004) "Shear band evolution and accumulated microstructural development in Cosserat media" International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechechanics 28, 981-1010
  17. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A (2004) "The stress response of a semi-infinite granular material subject to a normal point force at the boundary" Granular Matter 6, 27-37
  18. Tordesillas A. and Walsh SDC. (2002), "Incorporating rolling resistance and contact anisotropy in micromechanical models of granular media", Powder Technology 124(1-2), 106-111
  19. Tordesillas A. and Shi J. (2000), "The rolling contact of a rigid circular cylinder on a semi-infinite granular material", Journal of Engineerin Mathematics 37, 231-252
  20. Tordesillas A. and Shi J. (1999), "Frictional indentation of dilatant granular materials", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 455(1981), 261-283
  21. Hill JM, Shi J, Tordesillas A and Wu YH (1999), "The velocity field for the punch problem for dilatant granular materials" Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 52(1), 99-110
  22. Tordesillas A. and Shi J. (1998), "Indentation of a double shearing granular material by a smooth rigid wedge" Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 51(4), 633-646

Conference Papers

  1. Tordesillas A, Walsh SDC, Peters JF, Bosko JT and Muthuswamy M (2006) "Development of micromechanical models for granular media: kinematics and nonaffine motion", Proceeding of the 5th World Congress on Particle Technology, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 18 pages, ISBN 0-8169-1005-7
  2. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A (2006) "Injecting particle scale physics into continuum models of granular materials for large-scale applications" Earth and Space 2006 Proceedings of the 10th ASCE Aerospace Division of International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Editors: Malla RB, Binienda WK and Maji AK, American Society of Civil Engineers, 10 pages, ISBN 0784408300
  3. Muthuswamy M and Tordesillas A (2006) "Multiscale analysis of the effects of changing gravity on stress propagation in a material subject to an indenting rigid flat punch" Earth and Space 2006 Proceedings of the 10th ASCE Aerospace Division of International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Editors: Malla RB, Binienda WK and Maji AK, American Society of Civil Engineers, 8 pages, ISBN 0784408300
  4. Bosko JT and Tordesillas A (2006) "Evolution of Contact Forces, Fabric, and Their Collective Behavior in Granular Media under Deformation: a DEM Study" Earth and Space 2006 Proceedings of the 10th ASCE Aerospace Division of International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Editors: Malla RB, Binienda WK and Maji AK, American Society of Civil Engineers, 8 pages, ISBN 0784408300
  5. Tordesillas A and Walsh SDC (2005) "Analysis of deformation and localization in thermomicromechanical Cosserat models of granular media" Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Micromechanics of Granular Media Powders and Grains 2005 Editors: Garcia-Rojo R, Herrmann HJ and McNamara S, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1, pp 419-424, ISBN041538348X
  6. Gardiner BS and Tordesillas A (2003), "Evolution of anisotropies in shear bands" Proceedings of the Workshop on the Quasi-Static Deformations of Particulate Materials (QuaDPM'03), pp 107-118
  7. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A (2002), "Stranger than friction-Micromechanics of granular media" Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of The International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS)
  8. Tordesillas A and Shi J (1999) "Stresses, flow and deformation of soils in contact with metallic and/or rubber-like bodies" Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of The International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS), 1, pp 201-208
  9. Tordesillas A. (1994), "A contact mechanics approach to the soil-tyre interaction problem" Proceedings of the First North American Workshop on Modeling the Mechanics of Off-Road Mobility Paper GL-94-30, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi USA

Conference Abstracts

AMEC2006

Tordesillas A and Liu N, On the Importance of Granular Materials Research for Martian and Other Planetary Exploration. (abstract)

ANZIAM 2006:

  1. Tordesillas A, Anatomy of failure in particulate assemblies
  2. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A, A patchwork continuum for granular media
  3. Bosko JT and Tordesillas A, Statistical analysis and correlations of microstructure in jammed granular materials
  4. Muthuswamy M and Tordesillas A Getting unstuck in microgravity: analysis of granular materials for Lunar and Martian exploration
  5. Cole S, Tordesillas A and Walsh SDC, Body piercing by Cosserat
  6. Olshina N, Bosko JT and Tordesillas A, Squashing sand: the first high-resolution comparison between experiment and simulation
  7. Liu N and Tordesillas A, Surviving a Martian avalanche: granular flows down a bumpy incline

The Fifth World Congress on Particle Technology:

Muthuswamy M and Tordesillas A, Micro-level validation of discrete element simulations with experiments: a focus on force propagation (link)

ANZIAM 2005:

Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A, Large deformation modelling of granular materials

CTAC 2004:

  1. Tordesillas A, Peters JF and Muthuswamy M, Role of particle rotations and rolling resistance in a semi-infinite particulate solid indented by a rigid flat punch (link)
  2. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A, Mesoscopic simulations of contact problems involving Cosserat continua

ICIAM 2003:

  1. Tordesillas A, Gardiner BS and Walsh SDC, Understanding a granular material as a continuum (link) (Invited talk for the symposia on 'Mathematics and Mechanics of Granular Materials')
  2. Gardiner BS and Antoinette Tordesillas A,Granular Disorder and Localisation (link)
  3. Walsh SDC and Tordesillas A, A thermomechanical approach to the modelling of micropolar media (link)
  4. Muthuswamy M, Arber D and Tordesillas A, Adventures within the Shear Band (link)
  5. Arber D and Tordesillas A, Salt and Pepper: Axial Segregation of Granular Media Separatin (link)

QuadMP 2003:

Gardiner BS, Tordesillas A and Peters JF, Incorporating microstructural evolution into micromechanically-based continuum models of dry granular media (pdf)