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The evaluation of performance of three coupled pressure (PWP) generation models and stress-strain constitutive models are applied to granular soils. Those constitutive models are used to recommend them for subsequent application in seismic site-response analysis in effective stresses. The performance of the three-coupled models were evaluated using a database of 25 selected high quality cyclic simple shear tests. The conducted analysis suggested that the simple Coupled GMP and stress-strain constitutive model reasonably capture PWP behavior observed in the laboratory tests, they are analyzed better than using advanced constitutive models, and all of them can be used to perform effective stress-based one-dimensional site-response analysis.Keywords: constitutive models; granular materials; laboratory tests; seismic site-response analysis.Evaluación de modelos constitutivos esfuerzo-deformación acoplados con presión de poros en suelos granulares ResumenEn el presente artículo se evaluó el desempeño de tres modelos constitutivos esfuerzo-deformación acoplados con presión de poros a suelos granulares con el objetivo de recomendar su posterior aplicación en el análisis sísmico de respuesta de sitio. El desempeño de los tres modelos acoplados se evaluó utilizando una base de datos de 25 ensayos de corte simple cíclico de alta calidad. Los análisis realizados sugieren que el modelo acoplado de esfuerzo-deformación y GMP captura razonablemente el comportamiento de presión de poros observado en los ensayos de laboratorio de una mejor manera que los modelos constitutivos más avanzados y todos ellos se pueden utilizar para realizar análisis unidimensional de respuesta de sitio considerando esfuerzos efectivos.Palabras clave: análisis sísmico de respuesta de sitio; ensayos de laboratorio; materiales granulares; modelos constitutivos,

Simplified nonlinear effective stress constitutive models are commonly used in one-dimensional (1D) geotechnical site response analysis for assessment of porewater pressure generation and liquefaction potential in soft soil deposits. This study presents the performance of a 1D quasi-coupled constitutive model termed MRDF + u (modulus reduction and damping curve fit using a reduction factor and including porewater pressure generation, u) at a particular history case (i.e., Port Island, Japan), where liquefaction effects have been reported and the site could be potentially liquefied again. The study included evaluation of the performance of two porewater pressure generation models (Dobry-PWP and GMP-PWP models) coupled into the MRDF + u constitutive model using the Port Island history case. The new coupled model reasonably captures the soil cyclic behavior observed in the history case and may be used to perform effective stress-based 1D site response analysis in engineering practice.