Abstract
This paper presents a thermomechanical constitutive model that captures temperature dependent evolutions of preconsolidation stress and stress anisotropy in normally consolidated and lightly overconsolidated saturated clays. Following a non-associative flow rule, the model was formulated to account for the rate of evolution of stress anisotropy as a function of temperature. A temperature-dependent rotational hardening parameter was introduced and calibrated employing a simple optimization algorithm for four different clays. The developed model was further implemented in a finite element (FE) analysis software for use in boundary value problems. Success of such numerical implementation and predictive performance of the constitutive model was further verified through FE simulations of drained and undrained triaxial tests on saturated clays at reference and elevated temperature. FEA results obtained from these simulations agreed very well with test data reported in the literature.
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