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A simple hypoplastic model with loading surface accounting for viscous and fabric effects of clays
Author(s) -
Tafili Merita,
Triantafyllidis Theodoros
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal for numerical and analytical methods in geomechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.419
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1096-9853
pISSN - 0363-9061
DOI - 10.1002/nag.3122
Subject(s) - geotechnical engineering , viscoplasticity , oedometer test , creep , critical state soil mechanics , geology , anisotropy , materials science , strain rate , soil water , mechanics , constitutive equation , structural engineering , engineering , composite material , finite element method , physics , quantum mechanics , soil science
Summary This paper presents a simple hypoplastic model capturing mostly all salient features of clays: rate dependency, time dependency and inherent and induced anisotropy without being restricted to only viscoplastic clays. Therefore, due to the strain rate decomposition into three parts, nonviscous clays, that is, rate‐independent clays, can also be simulated. The incorporation of a loading surface allows to capture the behaviour of normal and overconsolidated clays. The model requires eight material parameters, which are simple to calibrate from standard laboratory tests. In total, 77 simulations of five different clayey‐like soils are compared with experimental data. The simulations contain one oedometer test with loading–unloading–reloading cycles, creep and relaxation stages, both undrained and drained triaxial tests in compression and extension, as well as eight incremental response envelopes capturing also the directional response of Beaucaire Marl clay. Some limitations of the model such as the description of temperature effects on the behaviour of clays are also pointed out.