Hypoplastic Constitutive Model Essay

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2.2 NUMERICAL MODEL STUDIES
Constitutive models for soils are usually involving complex equations intended for predictions of the soil behaviour (Ivo Herle, 2008). Besides the objectivity function (independence of reference system and units), they should also include several essential features observed in laboratory tests of soil samples like nonlinearity, limit stress states, proportionality of stress and strain paths, irreversibility and realistic selection of state variables. Constitutive models should be useful not only to their designers, i.e. they must be also user-invariant and different users should be able to obtain same solutions. Hypoplastic numerical modelling is one of the advanced SCL based program developed by Karlsruhe University, Germany. In the following paragraphs, some works based on hypoplastic modelling by different authors are presented.

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This constitutive model expresses the stress increment as a function of given strain increment and of the actual stress and void ratio. The influence of variation in the parameters, such as critical friction angle, granulate hardness, exponents n, α and β, minimum void ratio at zero pressure , maximum void ratio at zero pressure and critical void ratio at zero pressure, of the constitutive model on the oedometric and triaxial response is investigated by numerically simulating the response of the dense sand. Results obtained from the simulation indicate that the parameters such as critical friction angle, granulate hardness, exponent n and minimum void ratio at zero pressure have influence on the oedometric test response and parameters such as critical friction angle, critical void ratios at zero pressure, exponents n and a have influence on the triaxial test

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