Constitutive modelling of the behaviour of clays under cyclic loading

• Main Author: Sellers, E J
• Other Authors: Scheele, F
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Civil Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8317

Includes bibliography. === This research work involved the implementation of a constitutive model based on plasticity theory to model the behaviour of a clay under cyclic loading. The modelling must be based on an understanding of the soil response and the critical state theory provides a description of the soil response which then be formulated in terms of plasticity theory. A literature review showed that there is a shortage of information on the behaviour of soils under cyclic loading. Constitutive models for 'cyclic loading are discussed to compare the predictions and thus select a model.