Second-order work in barodesy.

Second-order work analyses, based on elasto-plastic models, have been frequently carried out leading to the result that failure may occur the limit yield condition is encountered. In this article, second-order work investigations are carried out with barodesy regarding standard element tests and finite element applications. In barodesy, it was shown-like in hypoplasticity and elasto-plasticity-that second-order work may vanish at stress states inside the critical limit surface.

Simulation of settlement and bearing capacity of shallow foundations with soft particle code (SPARC) and FE.

In this study we investigate the development of shear zones due to the settlement of shallow foundations and their load-settlement behavior. Firstly, a well-documented experiment of shallow penetration into sand is used for the validation of the soft particle code (SPARC). For these simulations a hypoplastic material model for sand with calibration for the model sand is implemented in SPARC.

Simulation of shear bands with Soft PARticle Code (SPARC) and FE.

The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate the development, thickness and orientation of shear bands, in biaxial test with two approaches towards solving problems of continuum mechanics, namely the meshless "Soft PARticle" method and the mesh based Finite Element method. Soft PArticle Code (SPARC) is a straightforward collocation numerical method based on strong formulation, in which a first order polynomial basis is adopted for the evaluation of spatial derivatives in partial differential equations. A novel nonlinear constitutive model- barodesy for clay, is adopted in this study.