The paper deals with a numerical analysis of the effect of textural anisotropy on the behaviour of cohesionless granular materials with consideration of shear localization. For a simulation of the mechanical behavior of a granular material during a monotonic deformation path, an isotropic micropolar hypoplastic constitutive model was used. To describe textural effects, spatially correlated random fields of the initial void ratio were subject to rotation against the horizontal axis. The 2D random fields were generated using a conditional rejection method. The results were compared with those obtained with an anisotropic micro-polar constitutive model for an uniform distribution of the initial void ratio. The calculations were carried out with a dense granular specimen during plane strain compression under constant lateral pressure.Key words: finite element method, granular material, micro-polar hypoplasticity, random field, shear zone, textural anisotropy A c c e p t e d m a n u s c r i p t 2