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Elastoplastic Model for Soils Considering Structure and Overconsolidation

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An isotropic hardening elastoplastic model for soil is presented, which takes into consideration the influence of structure and overconsolidation on strength and deformation of clays. Based on the superloading concept and subloading concept, the inner structural variable ω and overconsolidation variable ρ are introduced to describe the structure and overconsolidation of soil. The present model requires three additional parameters which can be obtained by conventional triaxial test, and the other parameters are same as those of modified Cam-clay (MCC) model. The performance of the proposed model is verified by undrained and drained triaxial tests.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Shuo Zhang  (张硕), Chencong Liao  (廖晨聪) & Qi Zhang  (张琪)

  2. Shanghai Road and Bridge (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200433, China

    Liang Zhen  (甄亮)

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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41602282)

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Zhang, S., Liao, C., Zhang, Q. et al. Elastoplastic Model for Soils Considering Structure and Overconsolidation. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 24, 196–203 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-019-2050-1

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