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A UH constitutive model for structured soils

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  • 1. School of Civil Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China; 2. School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Received date: 2014-11-04

  Online published: 2018-06-14

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11272031 and 51179003) and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.8132042).

Abstract

Based on the unified hardening (UH) model of reconstituted soil, a UH constitutive model is developed for structured clay. In this model, the dynamically moving normal consolidation line (MNCL) instead of the static normal consolidation line(NCL) is used as the reference line in determining the reference stress; and a proper increment evolution equation is proposed for the MNCL to describe the soil structural decay. The proposed structured soil UH model can reasonably simulate many behaviors of the structured soil, including the isotropic compression, strain hardening, strain softening, shear-induced shrinkage, shear-induced expansion, undrained shear decompression softening and coupling effect between soil structure and soil density. Compared to the original UH model, the structured soil UH model includes 3 new model parameters, which reflect the soil structure degree, the structure decay rate and the plastic flow rule, respectively. Comparisons between the test results and the model predictions of the three natural soils indicate that the structured soil UH model can reasonably describe the main features of the behavior of the structured soil.

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ZHU En-yang , YAO Yang-ping, . A UH constitutive model for structured soils[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2015 , 36(11) : 3101 -3110 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2015.11.009

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