A spatial zonal approach is proposed to handle the problems about determination of yield surface and plastic factor when multiple yield surfaces arise to intersect spatially in the elasto-plastic numerical analysis. The unified yield surface usually consists of twelve planes
while it contains only two shear yield planes when the stress angle is within the interval(0
π/3). The outside of the two shear yield planes is divided into two partitions with the meridian plane passing through their intersection line. Then the angle-bisecting plane of dihedral of the tension yield plane and the shear yield plane is used to divide the outside of these yield surfaces into four partitions. The formulas are derived in detail corresponding to the interfaces among these partitions
the selection criterion of the yield functions is prop
osed
and the corresponding incremental constitutive model is inserted into the software FLAC
3D
. A case about elaso-plastic analysis of a circular tunnel is presented. A comparison of the results from numerical calculation and analytical solution verifies the rationality of this method.
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