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The paper starts with a review of the present situation of constitutive modelling, which is characterized by a large diversity of very complex and hardly tractable mathematical models. This complexity hinders not only the application of these models to practical problems but also scientific progress, as it impedes comparison and competition of the various approaches. The reasons of this situation are analyzed and some propositions to overcome it are presented.
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Kolymbas, D. (2000). The misery of constitutive modelling. In: Kolymbas, D. (eds) Constitutive Modelling of Granular Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57018-6_1
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