Computer methods have opened a new era for accurate and economic analysis and design
of engineering problems. They account for many significant factors such as arbitrary …

A unified constitutive modeling approach is highly desirable to characterize a wide range of
engineering materials subjected simultaneously to the effect of a number of factors such as …

The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for
engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and …

A hierarchical concept is proposed for the development of constitutive models to account for
various factors that influence behaviour of (geologic) materials. It permits evolution of …

The proposed disturbed state concept (DSC) is based on the idea that a deforming material
element can be treated as a mixture of two constituent parts in the relative intact (RI) and …

In order to investigate the relationship between the shear strength of residual soil and the
number of repeated wet-dry cycles it underwent, the direct shear for different water content …

The mechanical behavior and constitutive relation of rock joints have caught more and more
attention in the field of geotechnical engineering. The disturbed state concept (DSC) theory …

To characterize the role of specimen disturbance and structure in the hydromechanical
behavior of collapsible soils, two sets of wetting-induced collapse and suction-controlled …

A new concept based on the use of a function expressed as a (complete) polynomial
expansion in terms of the three invariants of the stress tensor is proposed for deriving yield …

The aim or this paper is to propose a simple yet realistic model for the mechanical behavior
of geologic materials such as concrete and rock. The effect of structural changes in such …