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Question #153042 on Yade changed:
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Chareyre posted a new comment:
>If, after having reached your goal porosity,
>you unload your sample, then obviously you also change porosity itself.

You only recover some elastic deformation. It's small and reversible,
and it doesn't really change the particles arrangement. Shear strength,
for instance depends on a porosity that can be defined independently of
this elastic fluctuations.

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