Generalized Cam clay model (GCC)

This model represents a considerable improvement of the Modified Cam clay (MCC) model, particularly when modeling soils in supercritical domain, see figure, where the failure surface follows the classical models of Mohr-Coulomb, Drucker-Prager and Modified Mohr-Coulomb models. Unlike the Modified Cam clay model (dashed line) the GCC model plots, similarly to the MMC model, as a rounded triangle into the deviatoric plane. The MCC model plots, similarly to the Drucker-Prager model, as a circle. In the subcritical domain both models behave identically. GCC model is available only when advanced input is on. Reliable initialization of the model is described in section "Numerical implementation of MCC and GCC models".

Projection of yield surface of MCC and GCC models into meridial and deviatoric planes

The material parameters required for the Generalized Cam clay model are identical to material data of MCC and MMC models:

κ	-	slope of swelling line
λ	-	slope of normal consolidation line (NCL)
e0	-	initial void ratio
OCR	-	overconsoliodation ratio
c	-	cohesion
φ		angle of internal friction
φcv		angle of internal friction at constant volume [-]
ν		Poisson’s ratio

Parameters κ and λ can be estimated from the following expressions:

where:	Cc	-	one-dimensional compression index
	Cs	-	one-dimensional swelling index

These parameters follow from a simple oedometric test.

Similarly to the MCC model the formulation of the GCC model is based on the relation between the void ratio (volumetric strain) and the mean effective stress as shown in the following figure. Both graphs are linked as follows:

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Response of material during isotropic compression (constitutive law)

Evolution of the yield surface (hardening/softening) is driven by the current preconsolidation pressure p_c

where:		-	current preconsolidation pressure
		-	increment of volumetric plastic strain
	e	-	current void ratio