The dynamic constitutive relation of soil is widely applied to the ground design of marine structure and infrastructure in offshore geotechnical engineering. Increasing evidence from marine geotechnical design has shown that the traditional dynamic constitutive model has uncertain theories, many parameters, and complexity. Therefore, it is urgent to overcome these limitations and develop a simple and practical elastoplastic dynamic constitutive relation for the saturated structural soft clay. A simple dynamic constitutive relation with 5 parameters was proposed in this study, which can reflect the strain accumulation, hysteretic characteristics and cyclic degradation of the stress-strain for structural soft clay. First, the Drucker-Prager model was selected as the bounding surface, hardening modulus equation was established by the hardening law, interpolation function and structural strength coefficient. Then, the incremental stress-strain relationship was derived based on the incremental theory. The UMAT subroutine was compiled by FORTRAN language. Finally, the cyclic triaxial test and numerical simulation were carried out, and the stress-strain relationship was analyzed. The research results showed that the test results were in good agreement with the prediction results of the model.
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