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Overview

Itai Einav is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of main topics, which include:

  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Mineral Processing and Grinding
  • Drilling and Well Engineering

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Einav cover diverse aspects of granular materials and mechanics. These include:

  • The mechanics of brittle granular materials with coevolving grain size and shape, 2021, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • A hydrodynamic-plastic formulation for modelling sand using a minimal set of parameters, 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • A Cosserat Breakage Mechanics model for brittle granular media, 2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Characterisation of fracture evolution of a single cemented brittle grain using in-situ X-ray computed tomography, 2021, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • Length of standing jumps along granular flows down smooth inclines, 2020, Physical Review Fluids

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Einav include:

  • François Guillard
  • Benjy Marks
  • James Baker
  • Paul Shelley
  • Thierry Faug

Einav's research is often published in venues that frequently feature their work such as Granular Matter, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Acta Geotechnica, and International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Breakage mechanics—Part I: Theory

    Itai Einav

  • Combining upper bound and strain path methods for evaluating penetration resistance

    Itai Einav;Mark F. Randolph

  • Breakage mechanics—Part II: Modelling granular materials

    Itai Einav

  • The role of self-organization during confined comminution of granular materials

    Oded Ben-Nun;Itai Einav

  • Coupled damage and plasticity models derived from energy and dissipation potentials

    I. Einav;G.T. Houlsby;G.D. Nguyen

  • The Energetics of Cataclasis Based on Breakage Mechanics

    Giang D. Nguyen;Itai Einav

  • Grainsize dynamics of polydisperse granular segregation down inclined planes

    Benjy Marks;Pierre Rognon;Itai Einav

  • Grain size dependence of yielding in granular soils interpreted using fracture mechanics, breakage mechanics and Weibull statistics

    Y. D. Zhang;G. Buscarnera;I. Einav

  • The end-bearing capacity of piles penetrating into crushable soils

    C. Zhang;G.D. Nguyen;I. Einav

  • A thermomechanical constitutive model for cemented granular materials with quantifiable internal variables. Part I-Theory

    Alessandro Tengattini;Alessandro Tengattini;Arghya Das;Giang D. Nguyen;Gioacchino Viggiani

  • Pressure-Dependent Elasticity and Energy Conservation in Elastoplastic Models for Soils

    Itai Einav;Alexander M. Puzrin

  • Contact mechanics of fractal surfaces by spline assisted discretisation

    Dorian A.H. Hanaor;Yixiang Gan;Itai Einav

  • Force Attractor in Confined Comminution of Granular Materials

    Oded Ben-Nun;Itai Einav;Antoinette Tordesillas

  • Compaction bands due to grain crushing in porous rocks: A theoretical approach based on breakage mechanics

    Arghya Das;Giang D. Nguyen;Itai Einav

  • A constitutive modelling framework predicting critical state in sand undergoing crushing and dilation

    A. Tengattini;A. Das;I. Einav

  • Effect of strain rate on mobilised strength and thickness of curved shear bands

    I. Einav;Mark Randolph

  • The yielding of brittle unsaturated granular soils

    G. Buscarnera;I. Einav

  • Fracture propagation in brittle granular matter

    Itai Einav

  • A large deformation breakage model of granular materials including porosity and inelastic distortional deformation rate

    M.B. Rubin;I. Einav

  • Standing jumps in shallow granular flows down smooth inclines

    Thierry Faug;Thierry Faug;Philippa Childs;Edward Wyburn;Itai Einav;Itai Einav

  • Static friction at fractal interfaces

    Dorian A.H. Hanaor;Yixiang Gan;Itai Einav

  • A thermomechanical constitutive model for cemented granular materials with quantifiable internal variables. Part II - Validation and localization analysis

    Arghya Das;Alessandro Tengattini;Alessandro Tengattini;Giang D. Nguyen;Gioacchino Viggiani

Frequent Co-Authors

Giang D. Nguyen
Giang D. Nguyen University of Adelaide
Mark Randolph
Mark Randolph University of Western Australia
Gioacchino Viggiani
Gioacchino Viggiani Grenoble Alpes University
Guy T. Houlsby
Guy T. Houlsby University of Oxford
Federico Maggi
Federico Maggi University of Sydney
Conleth O'Loughlin
Conleth O'Loughlin University of Western Australia
Jean Sulem
Jean Sulem École des Ponts ParisTech
Stephen Hall
Stephen Hall Lund University
Mark Cassidy
Mark Cassidy University of Melbourne
Alexander M. Korsunsky
Alexander M. Korsunsky University of Oxford

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