Teaching and learning (soil) constitutive modelling
additional material related to my teaching project Animating Soil Models
In the sense of open education, the graphics are shared under the open license CC BY to use them as teaching and learning material.
Interactive WebGL graphics, created with asymptote.sourceforge.io
References
Useful equations to understand and plot 3D failure surfaces can be found in:
- Griffiths, D.V. (1990): Failure Criteria Interpretation Based on Mohr Coulomb Friction. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 116, Issue 6. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9410(1990)116:6(986)
- Griffiths, D.V. and Huang, J. (2009): Observations on the extended Matsuoka–Nakai failure criterion. Int. J. Numer. Anal. Meth. Geomech., 33: 1889-1905. doi: 10.1002/nag.810
Acknowledgement
I thank the geotechnical engineers on Twitter, through whom I got the idea for this project. I gratefully acknowledge financial support of the University of Innsbruck: ProLehre project, AURORA Challenge Domains. Project duration: 12/2020–11/2021. I further thank Hans-Peter Schröcker (University of Innsbruck) for suggesting to use asymptote.sourceforge.io.