Non-isothermal unified hardening model: a thermo-elasto-plastic model for clays
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A constitutive, non-isothermal unified hardening (UH) model is presented to interpret the thermo-elasto-plastic behaviours of normally consolidated and overconsolidated clays. Two yield surfaces are adopted in the proposed model: the current yield surface and the reference yield surface. A UH parameter (H) is developed to describe the evolution of the current yield surface, and the plastic volumetric strain is employed to quantify the hardening of the reference yield surface. The similarity ratio (RT) between the current yield surface and the reference yield surface, which is a function of the temperature and the plastic volumetric strain, is developed to govern the volume change behaviour and the shear strength of soils with different stress histories and at varying temperatures. The performance of the proposed model is then discussed in five typical scenarios: isotropic heating and cooling, drained/undrained triaxial compression with constant temperatures, and heating under constant non-isotropic states...
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering
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