Evaluation of a Predictive Constitutive Model for Sands
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 12
Abstract
In this technical note, an evaluation of the robustness and predictive ability of a constitutive model for sands is performed. The model is shown to capture the main features of sand behavior under both drained and undrained monotonic loadings for a wide range of relative densities and stress paths. The main contribution of this technical note is to evaluate a robust, yet simple, constitutive framework based on a solid theoretical basis that fulfils the most fundamental requirement of any useful constitutive law: accurate predictions.
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Acknowledgments
This work is partially supported by NSF Grant No. NSFCMMI-0726908 to Northwestern University and is gratefully acknowledged. Also, the second writer would like to acknowledge the partial support of his MS studies at Northwestern via a Walter P. Murphy Graduate Fellowship.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 12 • December 2008
Pages: 1825 - 1828
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© 2008 ASCE.
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Received: Aug 31, 2007
Accepted: Apr 4, 2008
Published online: Dec 1, 2008
Published in print: Dec 2008
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