Based on previous study

the authors deduced the three-dimensional relationship between micro-contact force and the macro-stress on convex polyhedron. Meanwhile the authors proposed the way dealt with the structured soils through investigating the properties of soil fabric and bonding between soil granulae. Following the conception of binary medium of structured soils presented by SHEN Zhu-jiang

this paper presents three models of failure of bonding under macro-stress and provides the equation for iterative calculation to derive the macro-compliance tensor. As an example

the structured soil behavior with the isotropic bonding and isotropic fabric under the isotropic loading has been studied and the closed-form solution of the failure development and the stress relationship has been derived. The investigations show that the failure of structured soils is caused by both of micro-shearing and micro-tension

which is corresponding with the real experimental study.