supported by the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20110073120012);the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan(No.11PJ1405700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41240024,41372285 and 41372264);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.1LY13E080013);the NSFC/ANR Joint Research Scheme(Nos.51161130523 and RISMOGEO)
Experiments show that silts and silty soils exhibit contraction followed by dilation during shearing and the slope of failure line decreases at large strains, termed as phase transformation behaviour. This paper is to...