Basic mechanical behavior of soils and their elastoplastic modeling

Based on the study of the isotropic loading test, the Cam-clay model has been established as the simplest elastoplastic model to describe the stress-strain relationships of normally consolidated clay in triaxial compression test, which is the basis to propose other models. According to the difference in loading modes and fabric characteristics, elastoplastic models describing stress-strain relationships under loading modes related to stress state, stress history, stress paths, loading time etc. are summarized. And elastoplastic models describing behaviors of soil structure, anisotropy and particle crushing etc. are summed up as well. Also, the transformed stress method representing the three dimensional property of soils, over-consolidated clay model describing the stress history effect and the asymptotic state model simulating asymptotic state path are introduced in detail.