When a well completed in a poorly consolidated and weak sandstone is produced, sand inflow from reservoir can occour. Problems arising from sand production include sand bridging and wellbore plugging; tools and casing abrasion requiring frequent workovers; casing collapse and distortion in the production zone; sand separation at surface and disposal of an environmentaly contaminated sand. However in heavy oil reservoirs, high viscosity and low production rates means that the problems mentioned before are far less than in high rate light oil wells. In these cases, some sand production can be accepted in order to increase productivity. Sand production is a conspicuous phenomena in poorly consolidated sandstones, but can also occur in cohesive medium-strong sandstones as a result of rock fabric damage during drilling, completion and production activities. Probably the main disturbance imposed to rock is the breakage of mineral cement, which produces a region of a granular yielded material around the bore. The percolation forces created by fluid flow can drag the solid particles to the well. A constitutive model that can be able to simulate stress-strain behavior is of major interest to sand production prediction. This theme is the central point of this work. A review of published articles related to sand production mechanisms is presented in the second chapter. Two weak sandstones obtained from outcrops were characterized. After a diagnosis under petrographic thin sections, an extensive image treatment and processing were carried out to measure grain size distribution, textural parameters and pore dimensions. Clay mineral were investigated by mean of X-ray diffraction techniques, using four distinct kinds of sample preparation. Porosity and intrinsic permeability were determined using a Boyle s principle porosimeter and a gas permeameter. A multivariate data analysis (cluster analysis) algorithm based on distance measures were applied to distinguish among groups with similar physical properties. A numerical exercise using analytical solution equations for the stress distribution on the wall of the well was done to determine the stress path, considering drilling and production effects. A experimental program of rock mechanic tests including uniaxial, conventional triaxial, hydrostatic and proportional loading, besides tests following a (p) constant path, were run in order to characterize the rock behavior as well as to obtain the constitutive model parameters. It must be mentioned that samples were water and oil saturated. An optimization algorithm for of model parameters identification were used and the Lade & Kim elastoplastic constitutive model was evaluated for describe stress-strain relation of sandstones.