A numerical study of shear band formation in plane strain tests of anisotropic sand is presented. The hypoplastic constitutive equation is extended to account for transversal anisotropy with the help of a second order structure tensor. The numerical calculations are carried out with the user defined features of Abaqus. The effect of specimen slenderness and initial void ratio distribution (homogeneously and probabilistically distributed) is investigated.
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