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ACMEG-T: Soil Thermo-Plasticity Model

Laloui, Lyesse  
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François, Bertrand  
2009
Journal of Engineering Mechanics

This paper addresses an advanced and unified thermo-mechanical constitutive model for cohesive soils. Based on experimental evidence showing the non-linear and irreversible thermo-mechanical responses of saturated soils, the constitutive equations of the developed model, ACMEG-T, are presented. In the context of elasto-plasticity and critical state theory, the model uses the concepts of multi-mechanism and bounding surface theory. Non-linear thermo-elasticity is joined with two coupled thermo-plastic dissipative processes to reproduce all of the features of thermo-mechanical behaviour. The yield functions, the dissipative potentials and the plastic multipliers are introduced. Attention is particularly focused on the coupling between both plastic mechanisms, an isotropic and a deviatoric one, which are in agreement with the consistency condition for multiple dissipation. Finally, the efficiency of ACMEG-T is proven by validation tests on drained and undrained thermo-mechanical paths.

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DOI
10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000011
Web of Science ID

WOS:000269061700004

Author(s)
Laloui, Lyesse  
François, Bertrand  
Date Issued

2009

Published in
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume

135

Issue

9

Start page

932

End page

944

Subjects

thermo-plasticity

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constitutive modelling

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hardening

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multi-mechanism plasticity

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environmental geomechanics

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REVIEWED

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