Soil Behaviour and Critical State Mechanics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521337823)

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.

Author: David Muir Wood
ISBN-10: 0521337828
ISBN-13: 9780521337823
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/1991
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 1.20d