Undrained triaxial tests were conducted to develop the constitutive relationships for two agricultural soils, which could be used for the finite element analysis of multipass effects of vehicles on soil compaction. Sandy-clay and sandy-silt samples were loaded and unloaded three times to levels of 138 kPa to simulate three passes of an agricultural tractor. An axial loading rate of 200 mm/min was used to include the dynamic effects of rapid loading from the vehicles. An Instron Universal Testing Machine was used to provide this loading rate. During the tests, a microcomputer based data acquisition system recorded axial force and strain. The system recorded 28 values per second. Tests were conducted at four confining pressures; 17.2, 24.1, 34.4 and 41.4 kPa. Plots for deviatoric stress and axial strain were found to be bilinear. Initial and latter portions of the curve were assumed to represent the elastic and plastic deformations of the sample, respectively. Assuming an associated flow rule, an elastic-plastic constitutive model was developed based on a Mohr-Coulomb failure surface. The constitutive model developed was evaluated by simulating a triaxial test at a confining pressure of 28 kPa. Initial conditions were computed by substituting the boundary stresses into the model to determine the elastic-plastic matrix. Incremental loads were applied up to the maximum stress level. For each increment of load, the elastic-plastic matrix was updated from the previous load application. The simulated data compared fairly well with experimental results, but tended to overpredict at higher stress levels. Based on a comparison with existing elastic-plastic models, the derived model appears to be well suited for substitution into the finite element method for studying soil compaction resulting from multipass effects of tractors. / M.S.