Abstract
AbstractAn anisotropic plasticity model is proposed to describe the fabric effect on sand behavior under both monotonic and cyclic loading conditions within the framework of anisotropic critical state theory. The model employs a cone-shaped bounding surface in the deviatoric stress space and a yield cap perpendicular to the mean stress axis to describe sand behavior in constant mean stress shear and constant stress ratio compression, respectively. The model considers a fabric tensor characterizing the internal structure of sand associated with the void space system and its evolution with plastic deformation. The fabric evolution law is assumed to render the fabric tensor to become codirectional with the loading direction tensor and to reach a constant magnitude of unit at the critical state. In constant stress ratio compression, the final degree of anisotropy is proportional to a normalized stress ratio. An anisotropic variable defined by a joint invariant of the fabric tensor and loading direction tensor...
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