Soil hardening for normally consolidated soil during undrained shearing


Hello ,

in David Muir's  book  Soil behaviour  and critical state soil mechanics, I have understood that during  undrained shearing for normally consolidated soil there is soil hardening, would someone explain that to me especially that in some other references soft soil undrained shearing is accompanied with strain softening 

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