A middle surface concept (MSC) model for saturated sands in general stress space

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 389-412

  Yang, Yunming ^a   Muraleetharan, K K ^b   Yu, H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive models; Fabric anisotropy; Middle surface concept; Pseudo yield surfaces; Sands

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRAIN; STRESSES;

ELASTOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL; GENERAL STRESS SPACE; MIDDLE SURFACE CONCEPT (MSC); SATURATED SANDS; STRESS-STRAIN RESPONSE;

SAND;

ELASTOPLASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SAND; STRAIN; STRESSES;

ELASTOPLASTICITY; MODELING; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SAND; SATURATED MEDIUM; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33646064114     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.483     Document Type: Article

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