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An analytical model for assessing the global elastoplastic behaviour of inclusion-reinforced materials is presented in this contribution. It is based upon a description of the reinforced material as a two-phase composite system, namely a matrix material and the reinforcements which are assumed to behave as tensile-compressive load carrying elements. An anisotropic elastoplastic constitutive law exhibiting work-hardening is then derived in an explicit form. It involves a number of hardening parameters equal to the number of reinforcing directions. Such a model, which is readily implementable in a finite element computer code, is applied to the numerical simulation of the settlement of a shallow strip footing resting upon a soil reinforced in two symmetric directions (“micropiling technique”). The load-settlement curve predicted from using the work-hardening model is finally compared with that deduced from a previously-adopted elastic perfectly plastic schematization of the reinforced soil.
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Sudret, B., de Buhan, S.M.P. & Bernaud, D. Elastoplastic analysis of inclusion reinforced structures. Metals and Materials 4, 252–255 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03187771
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