Abstract: Need for unified and mechanistic constitutive models for pavement materials for evaluation of various distresses has been recognized; however, such models are not yet available. There have been efforts to develop unified ...

Abstract: Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: The Disturbed State Concept , by Chandrakant S. Desai, CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, USA 2001, 698 pp....

Abstract: The disturbed state concept (DSC)-based model for overconsolidated clay was proposed mainly in a previous paper that aims to analyze the influences of the model parameters on model predictions, calibrations of the model ...

Abstract: The disturbed state concept (DSC) is widely used to capture the cracking, breaking, heating, softening, and hardening behaviors of geomaterials. In this study, a constitutive model for overconsolidated clays is proposed ...

Abstract: A constitutive model based on the theory of plasticity is proposed and used to characterize stress‐deformation behavior of rocks. It allows for factors such as hardening, volume changes, stress paths, cohesive and tensile ...

Abstract: The disturbed state concept (DSC) is used to characterize the deformation behavior of glacial tills, which may have a significant role in the motion of overlying glaciers with attendant implications for global climate ...

Abstract: The response of structure–foundation systems subjected to static, cyclic, or dynamic load depends on the interaction between them. The behavior of such systems is strongly nonlinear and inelastic and is affected by factors ...

Abstract: The data from comprehensive interface simple shear tests on saturated interfaces, presented in Part I of this paper, were used to calculate the parameters in the disturbed state concept (DSC) model. The resulting parameters ...