The following list of 10 introductory papers is recommended for the beginner reader of macroscopic soil plasticity constitutive modeling,
based on the simplicity and initiation of concepts. Many (and more recent) papers presenting models of greater simulative capabilities are not
included, because they are formulated at a higher level of complexity, appropriate for advanced reading. Also, micromechanically based
contributions were not considered in this list.


1. Drucker, D.C., R.E. Gibson and D.J. Henkel. (1955). “Soil Mechanics and Work-Hardening Theories of Plasticity”.  Proceedings, ASCE, Vol. 81, pp. 1-
14.

2. Roscoe, K.H., A.N. Schofield and D.P. Wroth. (1958). "On the Yielding of Soils”. Geotechnique, Vol. 9, pp. 22-53.

3. Roscoe, K.H. and J.B. Burland. (1968). "On the Generalized Stress-Strain Behavior of Wet Clay”.  Engineering Plasticity, pp. 535-609.

4. DiMaggio, F.L. and I.S. Sandler. (1971). "Material Models for Granular Soils”. J. Eng. Mech. Div., ASCE, 97(EM3):935-950.

5. Lade, P.V.and Duncan J.M. (1975). "Elastoplastic Stress-Strain Theory for Cohesionless Soil”. J. Geotech. Eng. Div., ASCE, 101:1037-1053.

6. Vermeer, P.A. (1978). “A Double Hardening Model for Sands”. Géotechnique, 28: 413-433.

7. Nova, R and Wood, D.M. (1979). “A Constitutive Model for Sand in Triaxial Compression”. Int. J. Numer. Anal. Meth. Geomech., 3:255-278.

8. Dafalias, Y.F. and Herrmann, L.R. (1982). “Bounding Surface Formulation of Soil Plasticity”. Chapter 10 in Soil Mechanics-Transient and Cyclic
Loads, Pande, G.N.and  Zienkiewicz, O.C., eds., pp. 253-282, John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

9.  Prevost, J.H. (1985).  "A Simple Plasticity Theory for Frictional Cohesionless Soils”.Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Eng., 4:9-17.

10.Pastor, M., O.C. Zienkiewicz, and A.C. Chan. (1990). “Generalized Plasticity and the Modelling of Soil Behavior”. Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods
Geomech., 14:151-190.


PAPERS FOR ADVANCED READING CO-AUTHORED BY Y.F. DAFALIAS

The following five papers co-authored by Y.F. Dafalias and his ex-students are recommended for advanced level soil plasticity reading. A very brief
and very simple sixth paper on clay anisotropy is added at the end of the list, as a natural extension of the previous classical paper #3 on isotropic
clays.

1. Anandarajah, A. and Dafalias, Y.F. (1986). "Bounding Surface Plasticity.  III: Application to Anisotropic Cohesive Soils". Journal of Engineering
Mechanics, ASCE,112:1292-1318.

2. Kaliakin, V.N. and Dafalias, Y.F. (1990). "Theoretical Aspects of the Elastoplastic-Viscoplastic Bounding Surface Model for Cohesive Soils". Soils
and Foundations, 30:11‑24.

3.Wang, Z.L., Dafalias, Y.F., and Shen, C.K. (1990). "Bounding Surface Hypoplasticity Model for Sand". Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 116:
983-1001.

4. Manzari, M.T. and Dafalias, Y.F. (1997). "A Critical State Two-Surface Plasticity Model for Sands”. Geotechnique,  47:255-272.

5. Li, X.S., and  Dafalias, Y.F.(2002). “Constitutive Modeling of Inherently Anisotropic Sand Behavior”. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Engineering, ASCE, 128: 868-880.

6. Dafalias, Y.F. (1986). “An Anisotropic Critical State Soil Plasticity Model”. Mechanics Research Communications, 13:341-347.

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