Evaluation of the predictive ability of two elastic-viscoplastic constitutive models

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1675-1694

  Hinchberger, Sean D ^a   Rowe, R Kerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case study; Coupled analysis; Elastic viscoplastic; Finite element analysis; Overstress viscoplasticity; Rate sensitive

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; ELASTICITY; EMBANKMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOPLASTICITY; YIELD STRESS;

CONSOLIDATED ANISOTROPIC UNDRAINED; ELASTIC-VISCOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; FULLY COUPLED ANALYSIS; INCREMENTAL OEDOMETER CONSOLIDATION; RATE-SENSITIVE CLAY FOUNDATIONS; ROWE CELL CONSOLIDATION;

CLAY;

CLAY; CONSOLIDATION; ELASTICITY; EMBANKMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOPLASTICITY; YIELD STRESS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 33644823530     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t05-082     Document Type: Article

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