A constitutive model for structured soils

Geotechnique

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 263-273

  Kavvadas, M ^a   Amorosi, A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Clays; Constitutive relations; Fabric structure of soils; Modelling and analysis; Numerical; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSOLIDATION; DEGRADATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; STIFFNESS; TENSORS; YIELD STRESS;

CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; FADING MEMORY SCHEME; PLASTIC YIELDING; VALLERICCA CLAY;

SOILS;

ANISOTROPY; CLAY; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DEGRADATION; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; SOIL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034111811     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2000.50.3.263     Document Type: Article

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