Material instabilities in inelastic saturated porous media under dynamic loadings

Instabilities in inelastic saturated porous media are investigated here for general three-dimensional states under dynamic loadings using a perturbation approach. Under quasi-static conditions, unbounded growth of perturbations is related to the emergence of stationary discontinuities under drained or undrained conditions, while under dynamic conditions, unbounded growth is related either to the emergence of stationary discontinuities (and these are set by drained conditions) or to the appearance of the flutter phenomenon (acceleration waves). For associative behaviour unbounded growth always corresponds to localization under drained conditions and the onset of growth of perturbations occurs here only through divergence growth. It is only for non-associative flow that unbounded growth may correspond to undrained localization in quasi-static conditions and to flutter under dynamic conditions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.