ABSTRACT
From a geotechnical engineering perspective relying on fundamental soil mechanics, rammed earth is an unsaturated, compacted mixture of soils that can present inter-particle bonding and/or fiber reinforcement. Conceptually, the mechanical behavior of such materials can be interpreted using a rigorous geomechanics framework. In practice, modeling of geomaterials featuring (1) transitional soil behavior, (2) cementation, (3) fiber reinforcement and/or (4) partial saturation is complex. If considered separately, each of these features makes analyses of such geomaterials very challenging, never mind dealing with all of them at the same time.
