An improved elastic-viscoplastic soil model

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1356-1376

  Kelln, Curtis ^a,d   Sharma, Jitendra ^b   Hughes, David ^a,d   Graham, James ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d GEO SLOPE International Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constitutive laws; Creep; Elastic viscoplastic soil model; Strain rate; Stress relaxation; Time dependent irrecoverable deformation

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; COMPRESSION TESTING; CREEP; DATA COMPRESSION; ELASTICITY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PLASTICS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOILS; STRAIN; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; VISCOPLASTICITY;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CONSTANT STRAINS; CONSTANT STRESSES; CONSTITUTIVE LAWS; EFFECTIVE STRESSES; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; ELASTIC-VISCOPLASTIC SOIL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MODELLING TIMES; NORMALLY CONSOLIDATED; PLASTIC STRAINS; SOIL BEHAVIOURS; SOIL MODELS; SOIL PARTICLES; STRESS-STRAIN; TIME-DEPENDENT IRRECOVERABLE DEFORMATION; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSIONS; UNDRAINED; UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTHS; VISCOPLASTIC; VISCOPLASTIC MODELS;

STRAIN RATE;

COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OVERCONSOLIDATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL PROPERTY; STRAIN RATE; STRESS; VISCOPLASTICITY;

EID: 54549125909     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T08-057     Document Type: Article

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