According to the deformation mechanism of rough interface
a damage model for soil-structure interface was set up to simulate the mechanical characteristics of strain-softening and shear-dilatancy .The model can be expressed by only one formula with clarified physical meaning
and has less parameters .The damage model was verified with the results of direct and simple shear test
and the predicted result by the model is agreeable with test data .It is shown that the proposed damage model is reasonable and practical .