Cam-Clay plasticity. I: Implicit integration of elasto-plastic constitutive relations (Q2639672)

In the paper two stress integration algorithms based on implicit calculation of plastic strains were implemented and tested for the modified historical Cam-Clay plasticity model. Numerical examples were presented to demonstrate the global accuracy and stability of these techniques and their applications to geotechnical engineering problems such as foundation bearing capacity and sequential excavation. Both schemes entail an iterative determination of the consistency parameter and the tangent operator on the scalar level, and are amenable to exact linearization. The relationships among various return mapping schemes were established in the context of associated and non-associated flow rule formulations.