Barodesy is a constitutive model based on proportional paths and the asymptotic behaviour of soil. It was originally developed for sand in 2009 by Kolymbas, and a version for clay was introduced in 2012. A shortcoming of former barodetic models was that tensile stresses can occur for certain dilative deformations. In this article, an improved version of barodesy for clay and a simplified calibration procedure are proposed. Basic features are shown, and simulations of element tests are compared with experimental data of several clay types.

The provided contents by information retrieval (IR) systems can reflect the existing societal biases and stereotypes. Such biases in retrieval results can lead to further establishing and strengthening stereotypes in society and also in the systems. To facilitate the studies of gender bias in the retrieval results of IR systems, we introduce Gender Representation-Bias for Information Retrieval (Grep-BiasIR), a novel thoroughly-audited dataset consisting of 118 bias-sensitive neutral search queries. The set of queries covers a wide range of gender-related topics, for which a biased representation of genders in the search result can be considered as socially problematic. Each query is accompanied with one relevant and one non-relevant document, where the document is also provided in three variations of female, male, and neutral. The dataset is available at https://github.com/KlaraKrieg/GrepBiasIR.

Summary: The intergranular strain concept was originally developed to capture the small‐strain behaviour of the soil with hypoplastic models. A change of the deformation direction leads to an increase of the material stiffness. To obtain elastic behaviour for smallstrains, only the elastic part of the material stiffness matrix is used. Two different approaches for an application of this concept to nonhypoplastic models are presented in this article. These approaches differ in the determination of the elastic stress response, which is used for reversible deformations. The first approach determines an elastic response from the original material model, and the second one uses an additional elastic model. Both approaches are applied on barodesy. The simulations are compared with experimental results and with simulations using hypoplastic models with the original intergranular strain concept.