Granular materials are the most recurrent form of solid-state matter on Earth. They challenge
researchers and engineers in various fields not only because they occur with a broad variety …

A new rate-independent hypoplastic model for clays is developed. The model is based on
the recently proposed approach enabling explicit incorporation of the predefined asymptotic …

Hypoplastic constitutive models are based on nonlinear tensor functions and are
characterized by simple formulation and few parameters. In its early stage, mainly basic …

In this article, a new constitutive model for soils is proposed. It is formulated by means of
plasticity, but in contrast to the precedent works, it presents a yield function describing a …

A sample of soil is subjected to multidimensional cyclic loading when two or three principal
components of the stress or strain tensor are simultaneously controlled to perform a …

We propose a hypoplastic model for granular soil using the memory surface notion to
consider the stress history. This paper aims to resolve the limitations of the hypoplastic …

The ISA-plasticity is a mathematical platform which allows to propose constitutive models for
soils under a wide range of strain amplitudes. This formulation is based on a state variable …

Adding a small amount of non-plastic silt to clean sands may lead to dramatic loss of shear
strength and a noteworthy tendency toward contraction when the mechanical behavior of the …

The mechanical behavior of silty sand is highly dependent on the percentage of fines in
addition to the packing density and confining pressure. Properly modeling the diverse …

Persistent shear bands in heterogeneous materials develop progressively, rather than
instantaneously. For a meaningful capture of this deformation pattern, the band must …