Plasticity and geomechanics

• Main Author: Davis, R. O.
• Other Authors: Selvadurai, A. P. S.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Subjects: Plasticity.; Soil mechanics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781601197580; 9780511061356; 9780511614958; 9780511055027; 9780521818308
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xii, 287 p.) : ill.

Plasticity and Geomechanics presents a concise introduction to the general subject of plasticity with a particular emphasis on applications in geomechanics. Derived from the authors' own lecture notes, this book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of soil mechanics, g...

Table of Contents:

• Stress and strain
• Elastic and inelastic material behaviour
• Yield
• Plastic flow
• Collapse load theorems
• Slip line analysis
• Work hardening and modern theories for soil behaviour
• Appendices:
• A. Non-Cartesian coordinate systems
• B. Mohr's circles
• C. Principles of virtual work
• D. Extremum principles
• E. Drucker's stability postulate
• F. Associated flow rule
• G. Uniqueness theorem for elastic-plastic deformation
• H. Theorems of limit analysis
• I. Limit analysis and limiting equilibrium.