Summary: Extending a previous work on the Gurson model for a ‘porous von Mises’ material, the present study first focuses on the yield criterion of a ‘porous Drucker-Prager’ material with spherical cavities. On the basis of the Gurson micro-macro model and a second order conic programming (socp) formulation, calculated inner and outer approaches to the criterion are very close, providing a reliable estimate of the yield criterion. Comparison with an analytical criterion recently proposed by Barthélémy and Dormieux – a nonlinear homogenization method – shows both excellent agreement when considering tensile average boundary conditions and substantial improvement under compressive conditions. Then the results of an analogous study in the case of cylindrical cavities in plane strain are presented. It is worth noting that obtaining these results was made possible by using mosek, a recent commercial socp code, whose impressive efficiency was already seen in our previous works.