“…The several stress-strain time-dependent models for soils that have been presented in the literature mainly fall within the following two main categories:(i) models based on the concept of overstress and (ii) models based on nonstationary yield theory, where the classical plasticity yield limit is generalized to a viscoplastic yield locus that depends on a time-dependent function, see e.g., [6,7] and the reviews in [8,9]. By following the overtress approach, the Vermeer-Neher (V-N) model [10,11], which addresses materials with a high degree of compressibility, such as soft soils, and generalizes odometer test results to fully three-dimensional conditions accounting also for (secondary) creep through an elastic-viscoplastic model, has encountered a significant popularity and is still actively used in the oil and gas industry for subsidence modeling, to predict the deformation of the ground surface induced by hydrocarbon withdrawal from underground reservoirs.…”