Discrete element simulations of drained granular material response under multidirectional rotational shear

Multidirectional shearing tests on soils in the laboratory suffer from drawbacks such as non-uniformity of stress and unknown horizontal stress of the specimen. As a promising numerical technique, the discrete element method (DEM) enables investigation of the responses of virtual granular samples under general loading conditions and provides ideal numerical results to overcome the aforementioned limitations. In this study, three different...