SUMMARYThe subloading surface model fulfills the mechanical requirements for constitutive equations, i.e. the continuity condition, the smoothness condition and the work rate stiffness relaxation and describes pertinently the Masing effect. The constitutive equation of soils is formulated by introducing the subloading surface model and formulating the evolutional rule of rotational hardening for the description of anisotropy. The applicability of the constitutive equation to the prediction of real soil deformation behaviour is verified by predicting monotonic and cyclic loading behaviour of sands under drained and undrained conditions and comparing them with test data.
Constitutive equations of elastoplastic materials with an elastic-plastic transition observed in the loading state after a first yield are presented by introducing a new parameter denoting the ratio of the size of a loading surface in the transitional state to that of a yield surface in the classical idealization which ignores the transitional state. These equations involve a reasonably simplified rule for the kinematic hardening. They would describe reasonably not only the hardening behavior but especially the softening behavior which requires our careful consideration about the elastic-plastic transition. From these equations, moreover, we derive plastic constitutive equations specifically of metals and granular media which exhibit very different plastic behaviors. Besides, brief discussions are provided concerning the existing constitutive equations describing the elastic-plastic transition.
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