Simplifying calibration of bonded elasto-plastic models

Using realistic constitutive models for artificially cemented soils is advantageous in design. However, the price of that increased realism is often a more elaborate model, which is difficult to calibrate. A database of high quality triaxial tests on compacted cemented silty sand is used to calibrat...

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Autor principal: Rios, S. (author)
Outros Autores: M. Ciantia (author), N. Gonzalez (author), M. Arroyo (author), A. Viana Da Fonseca (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/115712
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/115712
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Resumo:Using realistic constitutive models for artificially cemented soils is advantageous in design. However, the price of that increased realism is often a more elaborate model, which is difficult to calibrate. A database of high quality triaxial tests on compacted cemented silty sand is used to calibrate and validate a generalized critical state bonded soil model. The exercise highlights the staged calibration procedure that is convenient in this kind of application. The calibration results have shown a direct relation between added yield strength and a well-established soil-cement mixture ratio, which facilitates the application of the model in design. It is shown that such relation can be also deduced from the analysis of unconfined compressive strength tests.