• Mechanics of cutting in granular media 

      Hegde, Abhijit
      Cutting is an important deformation process encountered during many instances in the engineering of infrastructure, such as trawling, trenching, and excavation. This thesis presents the results of an experimental program ...
    • Mechanics of Drilling in Porous Brittle Solids 

      Yadav, Shwetabh (2018-01-01)
      This thesis presents a detailed experimental programme on understanding the mechanics of drilling in porous brittle solids. Gypsum was used as a model material for this experimental study, in which the mechanics of drilling ...
    • Rheological Studies on Slow Flow in Dense Granular Ensembles 

      Kumar, V Shravan
      An experimental study on the rheology and kinematics of dense granular materials is presented in this thesis in the slow flow regime. In this study, we employ an often used experimental set up of the cylindrical Couette ...
    • Weakly cemented granular materials: study at multiple length scales 

      Singh, Saurabh
      Cemented granular systems are encountered at various scales in nature and artificially. We present an experimental study carried out on the structure and mechanical behaviour of weakly cemented granular materials. We study ...