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Hypoplasticity then and now

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Constitutive Modelling of Granular Materials

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This paper is conceived primarily as an account of some interrelated ideas that we have contributed over a long period to the constitutive theory for soils known as hypoplasticity. Our previous publications on this issue have been purely seriatim and mainly for specialists. It now seems timely to attempt a unified, general presentation, which moreover is directed also to nonspe- cialists. In doing so, some emphasis is placed on the ideas and methodology underlying the model by skipping manipulative details, since the formulation may otherwise relapse into mathematical complexity, so obscuring the physical meaning. Despite the article’s review character some unpublished materials and background information are incorporated, which are otherwise omitted due to space limitation. Hopefully, the presentation will have a certain freshness, even for specialists.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the differnce.

from ”The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost.

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Wu, W., Kolymbas, D. (2000). Hypoplasticity then and now. In: Kolymbas, D. (eds) Constitutive Modelling of Granular Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57018-6_4

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