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Shear banding in unsaturated geomaterials through a strong nonlocal hydromechanical model

Abstract We present a strong nonlocal hydromechanical model formulated based on state-based peridynamics for simulating strain localisation in unsaturated geomaterials. The governing equations are integro-differential equations in which length scales are assumed for both the skeleton deformation and pore fluid flow. Recently proposed hydromechanical correspondence principle is adopted to implement the classical local constitutive model for the solid skeleton, and the generalised Darcy’s law for unsaturated water flow into the nonlocal hydromechanical model. Numerical simulations of shear bands in unsaturated geomaterials were conducted to investigate the effect of the hydromechanical length scale and the mechanical loading rate on the formation of shear bands. The numerical results have shown that both the deformation and pore water pressure are concentrated in the shear bands with a finite thickness. The numerical results have demonstrated that both the hydromechanical length scale and the mechanical loading rate affect the formation of shear bands in unsaturated geomaterials and the peak value of the load capacity of unsaturated geomaterials.