Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6746462 Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 2018 29 Pages PDF
Abstract
This paper shows, however, that the above two sets of stress variables lead to different values of the second-order term of the hydro-mechanical work input. They are therefore no longer equivalent with respect to other aspects of material behaviour governed by the second-order work such as the flow rule of elasto-plastic models. The flow rule assumes the normality between plastic strains and equipotential surfaces defined in the conjugate stress-strain space. This normality is however lost when an elasto-plastic model originally formulated in terms of net stress plus suction is recast in terms of average skeleton stress plus modified suction (or vice versa) by means of standard mapping relationships between stress variables. To restore normality in both stress spaces, it is necessary to impose specific forms of elastic and plastic behaviour.
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