Physical Soil Mechanics

• Main Author: Gudehus, Gerd (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Geophysics.; Geotechnical engineering.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Engineering geology.; Engineering > Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.; Engineering, general.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.

Soil is matter in its own right. Its nature can be captured by means of monotonous, cyclic and strange attractors. Thus material properties are defined by the asymptotic response of sand- and clay-like samples to imposed deformations and stresses. This serves to validate and calibrate elastoplastic...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• introduction
• simple psammoids
• simple peloids
• psammoids with reversals
• peloids with reversals
• pore fluid
• bridging gaps
• localization
• fabric
• boundary conditions
• one-dimensional evolutions
• plane-parallel evolutions without ssi
• plane-parallel evolutions with ssi
• axi-symmetric evolutions
• less symmetric evolutions
• critical phenomena
• epilogue
• references
• symbols and acronyms.