Generalized plasticity state parameter based model for saturated and unsaturated soils. Part I: saturated state

DIEGO MANZANAL; JOSÉ ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ MERODO; MANUEL PASTOR

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS

JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2011 vol. 35 p. 1347 - 1362

0363-9061

The behaviour of granular materials is known to depend on its loose or dense nature, which in turns depends both on density and confining pressure. Many models developed in the past require the use of different sets of constitutive parameters for the same material under different confining pressures. The purpose of this paper is to extend a basic generalized plasticity model for sands proposed by Pastor, Zienkiewicz and Chan by modifying the main ingredients of the model ?flow rule, loading-unloading discriminating direction and plastic modulus- to include a dependency on the state parameter. The proposed model is tested against available experimental data on three different sands, using for each of them a single set of material parameters, finding a reasonably good agreement between experiments and predictions.