Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics
Cambridge University Press, 7/11/1991
EAN 9780521337823, ISBN10: 0521337828
Paperback, 488 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm
Language: English
Soils can rarely be described as ideally elastic or perfectly plastic and yet simple elastic and plastic models form the basis for the most traditional geotechnical engineering calculations. With the advent of cheap powerful computers the possibility of performing analyses based on more realistic models has become widely available. One of the aims of this book is to describe the basic ingredients of a family of simple elastic-plastic models of soil behaviour and to demonstrate how such models can be used in numerical analyses. Such numerical analyses are often regarded as mysterious black boxes but a proper appreciation of their worth requires an understanding of the numerical models on which they are based. Though the models on which this book concentrates are simple, understanding of these will indicate the ways in which more sophisticated models will perform.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of symbols
1. Introduction
models and soil mechanics
2. Elasticity
3. Plasticity and yielding
4. Elastic-plastic model for soil
5. A particular elastic-plastic model
cam clay
6. Critical states
7. Strength of soils
8. Stress-dilatancy
9. Index properties
10. Stress paths and soil tests
11. Applications of elastic-plastic models
12. Beyond the simple models
References
Index.