Plasticity and geotechnics. (Q885250)

This book presents plasticity theories of geomaterials (as clay, sand, or rock) and their applications to geotechnical analysis and design. The author analyses classical, modern and recent developments of constitutive relations for geomaterials and a number of analytical and computational techniques for solving geotechnical design problems. The book is divided into three parts. The first one deals with the fundamentals of plasticity theory and with the general elastic-plastic theorems and principles, such as principle of virtual work, uniqueness theorems, variational principles, plastic collapse and limit analysis and shakedown theory. The second part develops plasticity models with classical Tresca, Mohr-Coulomb and von Mises criteria, critical state hardening models, multi-surface and bounding surface models, non-coaxial plasticity, and plasticity without a priori yield criterion. The final part contains a large number of solution techniques for various boundary value problems in geotechnical engineering. These ranges from analytical solutions, slip-line analysis and limit analysis to shakedown analysis and finite element methods. The book can serve as a valuable reference for researchers, teachers and students in soil mechanics, rock mechanics, geotechnics and civil engineering.