A fully coupled damage-plasticity model for unsaturated geomaterials accounting for the ductile-brittle transition in drying clayey soils

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

卷:91

Article

Le Pense, Solenn^1,3  Arson, Chloe²  Pouya, Amade¹ 

[1] Ecole Ponts, UPE, IFSTTAR, UMR 8205,Lab Navier,CNRS, Champs Sur Marne, France

[2] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Civil & Environm Engn, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[3] Heriot Watt Univ, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Midlothian, Scotland

关键词: Constitutive laws;    Damage;    Plasticity;    Unsaturated geomaterials;    Effective stress;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2016.04.007

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents a hydro-mechanical constitutive model for clayey soils accounting for damage plasticity couplings. Specific features of unsaturated clays such as confining pressure and suction effects on elastic domain and plastic strains are accounted for. A double effective stress incorporating both the effect of suction and damage is defined based on thermodynamical considerations, which results in a unique stress variable being thermodynamically conjugated to elastic strain. Coupling between damage and plasticity phenomena is achieved by following the principle of strain equivalence and incorporating the double effective stress into plasticity equations. Two distinct criteria are defined for damage and plasticity, which can be activated either independently or simultaneously. Their formulation in terms of effective stress and suction allows them to evolve in the total stress space with suction and damage changes. This leads to a direct coupling between damage and plasticity and allows the model to capture the ductile/brittle behaviour transition occurring when clays are drying. Model predictions are compared with experimental data on Boom Clay, and the flexibility of the model is illustrated by presenting results of simulations in which either damage or plasticity dominates the coupled behaviour. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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