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A thermo-elasto-plastic model for normally consolidated and overconsolidated soils

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

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Abstract

A constitutive, non-isothermal unified hardening (UH) model is presented to interpret the thermo-elastoplastic behaviours of normally consolidated (NC) and overconsolidated (OC) clays. Two yield surfaces (the current yield surface and the reference yield surface) are adopted in the proposed model.A unified hardening parameter (H) is developed to describe the evolution of the current yield surface, and the plastic volumetric strain is employed to quantify the hardening of the reference yield surface. The similarity ratio (RT ) between the current yield surface and the reference yield surface, which is a function of the temperature and plastic volumetric strain, is developed to govern the volume change behaviour and the shear strength of soils with different stress histories and at varying temperatures. The proposed model is then validated through test results in the literature.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNumerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering - Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, NUMGE 2014
PublisherTaylor and Francis - Balkema
Pages1067-1072
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781138026889
StatePublished - 2014
Event8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, NUMGE 2014 - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 18 Jun 201420 Jun 2014

Publication series

NameNumerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering - Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, NUMGE 2014
Volume2

Conference

Conference8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, NUMGE 2014
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityDelft
Period18/06/1420/06/14

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