The 3-yield surface model developed by Shen (1984)
is one of the most widely used model in civil engineering in China
which has three surfaces
compression yield surface
shear yield surface and dilatancy yield surface. The SMP criterion (Matsuoka and Nakai
1974;Matsuoka
1976) is one of the best criterions for the soil in the world. By using the transformed stresses
the 3-yield surface model is combined with the SMP criterion. The revised 3-yield surface model is the same as the original model in form. Comparisons with the experimental data show that not only it can well describe the stress-strain behaviors of the soil
but also can well describe the bifurcate behavior between the strains and stress. The transformed stress method is simple and effective.