Constitutive Modelling of Granular Materials

- The misery of constitutive modelling
- Does engineering need science
- The role of models in civil engineering
- Hypoplasticity then and now
- A review of two different approaches to hypoplasticity
- Uniqueness, second order work and bifurcation in hypoplasticity
- Stationary states in hypoplasticity
- Microscopic approach contributions to constitutive modelling
- Discrete and continuum modelling of granular materials
- 2nd Gradient constitutive models
- Micro-mechanically based higher-order continuum models for granular materials
- Relevant local variables for the change of scale in granular materials
- On the physical background of soil strength
- The influence of time derivative terms on the mechanical behaviour of loose sands
- An approach to plasticity based on generalised thermodynamics
- Comparison of hypoplasticity and elastoplastic modelling of undrained triaxial tests on loose sand
- Hypoplastic and elastoplastic modelling - a comparison with test data
- Strain response envelope: a complementary tool for evaluating hypoplastic constitutive equations
- Modelling wathering effects on the mechanical behaviour of granite
- A plasticity-based constitutive model for natural soils: a hierarchical approach
- Experimental bases for a new incremental non-linear constitutive relation with 5 parameters
- Implicit integration of hypoplastic models
- Soil-water coupling analysis of progressive failure in cuts with a strain softening model
- Advances in modelling soil anisotropy
- Exemples of finite element calculations with the hypoplastic law
- Hypoplastic simulation of complex loading paths..

Professor Dimitrios Kolymbas studierte Bauingenieurwesen an der Universität Karlsruhe, wo er am Institut für Boden- und Felsmechanik promovierte und sich habilitierte. Seit 1994 ist er Professor für Geotechnik und Tunnelbau an der Universität Innsbruck.