Plasticity and Geotechnics

• Main Author: Yu, Hai-Sui (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics ; 13
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Numerical analysis.; Mechanics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Continuum mechanics.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Numerical Analysis.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

Plasticity and Geotechnics is the first attempt to summarize and present, in one volume, the major developments achieved to date in the field of plasticity theory for geotechnical materials and its applications to geotechnical analysis and design. The author believes that there is an urgent need for...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals
• Elements of Continuum Mechanics
• Foundations of the Theory of Plasticity
• General Elastic-Plastic Theorems
• Constitutive Relations
• Perfect Plasticity
• Isotropic Hardening and Critical State Theory
• Multi-Surface and Bounding Surface Plasticity
• Non-Coaxial Plasticity
• Plasticity Without a Prior Yield Criterion
• Solution Techniques
• Rigorous Analysis of Elastic-Plastic Problems
• Slip Line Analysis
• Limit Analysis
• Shakedown Analysis
• Finite Element Analysis.