1st Edition
Deformation and Failure of Granular Materials International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics symposium on deformation and failure of granular materials, Delft, 31 August - 3 September 1982
By Vermeer
Copyright 1982
672 Pages
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CRC Press
‘Deformation and Failure of Granular is the conference proceedings of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics symposium on deformation and failure of granular materials, held in Delft, on the 31 August - 3 September 1982.
Preface 1. Role and description of fabric Orientational distributions of contact forces as memory parameters in a granular material; Incremental parabolic hardening of psammic material; Application to laterally loaded piles in sand; Configuration hardening or softening of blocky materials; Some features of the gross behavior of granular media derived from micromechanics; Fabric and its influence on mechanical behavior of granular materials; Combined investigations in statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics for predicting the behaviour of granular media in construction problems; Geometry of discontinuity and its relation to mechanical properties of discontinous materials; Fabric tensor in granular materials; On the mechanics of granular material 2. General aspects of constitutive modelling 3. Constitutive models 4. Experimental studies with reference to constitutive models 5. Shear band formation 6. Limit analysis and granular flow 7. Model tests and analytical solutions
Biography
P.A. VERMEER, Delft University of Technology. H.J.LUGER, Delft Soil Mechanics Laboratory.
