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Hardening Soil model with small strain stiffness - Zace Services Ltd.

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Notion of tangent and secant <strong>stiffness</strong> moduli<br />

Initial <strong>stiffness</strong> modulus E o<br />

Unloading-reloading modulus E ur<br />

Secant <strong>stiffness</strong> modulus at 50 % of the ultimate deviatoric<br />

stress q f<br />

0<br />

250<br />

q [kpa]<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

1<br />

E o<br />

1 E 50<br />

q 50<br />

E ur<br />

1<br />

q f<br />

0.5 q f<br />

σ 3 =const<br />

q un<br />

0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25<br />

EPS-1 [-]<br />

Remark: All classical soil <strong>model</strong>s require specification of E ur<br />

modulus (Cam-Clay, Cap etc..)<br />

Andrzej Truty ZACE <strong>Services</strong><br />

<strong>Hardening</strong> <strong>Soil</strong> <strong>model</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>small</strong> <strong>strain</strong> <strong>stiffness</strong>

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