An Elasto-Plastic Constitutive Model for Soft Rock with Strain Softening

Constitutive Modeling of Rocks, Rock Joints and Rock Masses including Strain Softening Behaviour

The rocks are formed through very complex processes and the complex behaviour of rock masses is dominated by the planes of weaknesses . Rock mass consists of intact rock and discontinuities. Many rocks show strain softening behaviour under loads. In this paper, the constitutive models for intact rocks and rock joints are presented. These form the basis for the development of constitutive models...

A damage-softening statistical constitutive model considering rock residual strength

Under stress, the microcracks in rock evolve (initiation, growth and coalescence) from damage to fracture with a continuous process. In order to describe this continuous process, a damage-softening statistical constitutive model for rock was proposed based on the Weibull distribution of mesoscopic element strength. This model usually adopts the Drucker–Prager criterion as its distribution param...

Elasto-Plastic Constitutive Model for Finite Element Simulation of structural Adhesives

Considered by the automotive industry as a good solution to bond car body parts together, structural adhesives must be integrated in the early design process of vehicles, hence in the finite element analysis. A first difficulty when modeling structural adhesives comes from their complex mechanical pressure-dependent behaviour as well as their load-dependent strength. These aspects make them imp...

Simulation of long-term consolidation behavior of soft sensitive clay using an elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model

Failure Behavior and Constitutive Model of Weakly Consolidated Soft Rock

Mining areas in western China are mainly located in soft rock strata with poor bearing capacity. In order to make the deformation failure mechanism and strength behavior of weakly consolidated soft mudstone and coal rock hosted in Ili No. 4 mine of Xinjiang area clear, some uniaxial and triaxial compression tests were carried out according to the samples of rocks gathered in the studied area, r...