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Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics

Book information

Year
1991
ISBN
0521337828, 9780521337823
LCC
TA710 .W598 1990
Open Library ID
OL2226253M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
13 MB (13426544 bytes)
Pages
488\480
Time added
2013-05-25 05:47:04

Description

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 behavior 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.

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