Elasto-plastic constitutive modelling of granular assembly (Q675440)

We present a triaxial elasto-plastic stress-strain relationship for a continuum solid derived using the concept of granular assembly. We show a macroscopic material nonlinearity by considering the local geometric nonlinearity of the material on the microscopic level of the granular assembly. For a given strain increment causing both elastic and plastic strain increments in an assembly, the elastic strain is calculated by using the known uniform strain theory of granular materials, and the corresponding plastic strain increment is computed from the mechanism resulting from the strain due to slip between particles. Responses of two construction materials, steel and concrete, predicted by the proposed constitutive law, are given for illustration.