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Water ingress in soils through infiltration can trigger instability leading to failures in slopes and embankments under drained conditions. Subsequent investigations on such failures have shown that the infiltration of water in soils can cause a reduction in effective stress thus triggering the instability. In addition, studies have indicated that the constant shear drained (CSD) triaxial test can depict an unstable phenomenon where effective stress is continuously reduced. In the current study, the first section of research focuses on the Discrete Element Method (DEM) modelling of the instability behaviour of granular materials during CSD conditions. The CSD condition was modelled by decreasing the mean effective stress on an assembly of particles under strain-controlled loading. The instability condition was predicted at the particle scale level using particle second-order work increment. The DEM contact parameters have been calibrated to capture the macroscopic responses and the ins ....