Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1991
First published:	1990
Authors:	David Muir Wood
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	488
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-33782-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-33782-8
Barcode:	9780521337823

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