Soil behaviour and critical state soil mechanics /
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| Author / Creator: | Wood, David Muir |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
| Description: | xxiii, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1081513 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
