Elastoplastic constitutive equation of soils with the subloading surface and the rotational hardening

The subloading surface model fulfills the mechanical requirements for constitutive equations, i.e. the continuity condition, the smoothness condition and the work rate stiffness relaxation and describes pertinently the Masing effect. The constitutive equation of soils is formulated by introducing the subloading surface model and formulating the evolutional rule of rotational hardening for the description of anisotropy. The applicability of the constitutive equation to the prediction of real soil deformation behaviour is verified by predicting monotonic and cyclic loading behaviour of sands under drained and undrained conditions and comparing them with test data. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.