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The two reference models for sand and clay, introduced in Chaps. 5 and 6, cover the behaviour of a variety of common soils under standard conditions. However, specific applications or specific soil types require enhancements of these models to achieve the predictive goal. A selection of such enhancements is described this chapter. The readers are introduced to methods for predicting small strain stiffness, rate effects, effects of structure, partial saturation, thermal effects and stiffness anisotropy within the theory of hypoplasticity.
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In the original version of the book, the following corrections have been incorporated: Equation 5.1 has been updated in Chapter 5. Equation 7.14 has been updated in Chapter 7.
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Note that Cotecchia and Chandler [32] defined stress sensitivity as a ratio of the preconsolidation stresses \(p_c\) of structured and reconstituted soils. In this work, equivalent pressures \(p_e\) is adopted instead, as this notion is more suitable for the definition of hypoplastic models.
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Mašín, D. (2019). Advanced Modelling Approaches. In: Modelling of Soil Behaviour with Hypoplasticity. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03976-9_7
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