A hypothesis that the skeleton deformation of sand is only the deformation of the interfaces of grains

and the deformation characteristics including nonlinearity

plastic deformation and shear dilation are controlled by the sliding of interfaces of grains within skeleton

is presented.The contact between grains is classified as perfect contact and sliding contact in this paper.In the elastic deformation phase

the contact between grains is regarded as perfect contact.With the increase of shear stress

there are gradual conversions from perfect contacts to sliding contacts which are viewed of damages in this paper.Based on MohrCoulomb law

a calculation method for the damage ratio is given according to the relative distance of the stress point to the initial damage line and failure line.On this basis

a damage constitutive model is proposed.The model properties can be conveniently obtained through conventional triaxial compression test and constant stress ratio consolidation test.Test results indicate that the model is capable of predicting deformation behavior for various conditions

including varying consolidation conditions and stress paths.