 ##  [Hardening Soil Model](/hardening-soil-model) 

  ##  [Hardening Soil Model](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/hardening-soil-model-0) 

  
 [![Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2026-01/Engineering%20%26%20Applied%20Technologies.png.webp?itok=_IKO7_-n)](/topic-specific-dictionaries/engineering-applied-technologies)


**Engineering &amp; Applied Technologies Dictionary**

 
Definition

A nonlinear elastoplastic constitutive model for soils that accounts explicitly for stress‑dependent stiffness and plastic hardening: stiffness increases with confining stress and plastic yielding evolves with accumulated plastic strains.