A double hardening thermo-mechanical constitutive model for overconsolidated clays

On the basis of a double hardening model for clays and available experimental results, a new thermo-elasto-plastic constitutive model for saturated clays is proposed to describe the effects of temperature and overconsolidation ratio on the mechanical properties of saturated clays. Two hardening parameters are introduced: s_c^￠ {\sigma}_{{\rm c}}^{\prime} and α. The proposed model is then applied to simulate the relevant important features of saturated clays with different overconsolidation ratios under different temperature and loading conditions. The model predictions are compared with available experimental results to demonstrate its accuracy and usefulness.