This paper describes an elastoplastic model for rockˆlls and simulations of laboratory test by using the model. Rocklls express remarkable shear strength reductions and compressive deformations due to saturation. The authors have already developed elastoplastic models to represent the mechanical properties of unsaturated soils. Two suction eŠects were taken into account in the models. However for rockˆlls, one suction eŠect: an increase in suction enhances yield stresses and aŠects resistance to plastic deformations, remarkably appears. The eŠect may be evaluated by formulating state surfaces. In this paper, a model proposed by authors is modiˆed for rockˆlls. To verify the elastoplastic model for rockˆlls, simulations of oedometer and triaxial compression tests were carried out. The simulation results could well express the volume change and shear behavior of the rockˆll, especially the in‰uence of water contents.
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