Reply to Comments on 'Unsaturated soils: From constitutive modelling to numerical algorithms' by Daichao Sheng, Antonio Gens, Delwyn G. Fredlund and Scott W. Sloan [Computers and Geotechnics 35(6) (2008) 810-824] by Jingshuang Li, Yichuan Xing and Yujing Hou

摘要

We would like to thank the discussers for their interest in our paper. The hysteretic soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) used in the SFG model follows that of [1 ]. In this model, the SWCC is assumed to be independent of soil density, which represents a simplification of real soil behaviour.