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Francois Nicot

affiliation not provided to SSRN

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

5

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227

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Scholarly Papers (5)

1.

Shear Banding as a Dissipative Structure from a Thermodynamic Viewpoint

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Jan 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Aix-Marseille University, University of Calgary and University Grenoble Alpes
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Granular materials, Shear band, Instability, Entropy production, Bifurcation, Break in symmetry, Elastic energy, Dissipative structure, Microstructure

2.

Reconstruction and Verification of Triggering Conditions for the Hermitage Landslide at the Vaches Noires Cliffs (Normandy)

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Jul 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Aix-Marseille University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Landslide, Geomorphology, Numerical modeling, Groundwater

3.

A Multi-Scale Bifurcation Analysis Using Micromechanical-Based Constitutive Tensor for Granular Material

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Jan 2024
University of Calgary, University of Calgary, Carleton University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Granular materials, Bifurcation analysis, instability, Plastic yield, Plastic flow, Plastic instability, Localization, Second order work, Rice's criterion, Constitutive relation, Tangent operator, Multi-directional probing, Discrete Element Modeling

4.

Energy Processes and Phase Transition in Granular Assemblies

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Sep 2023
Xiaoxiao Wang, Yang LIU and Francois Nicot
University of Science and Technology Beijing, University of Science and Technology Beijing and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Elastic energy storage/release, Plastic dissipation, phase transition, Shear band, DEM, Granular assemblies

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Modelling of instability in cemented granular materials with an enhanced multiscale model

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Jun 2026
Zeyong Liu, Chaofa Zhao, Antoine Wautier and Francois Nicot
Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University, Aix-Marseille University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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cemented granular material, H-bond model, instability, Finite Element Method, multiscale model