Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials : Principles and Applications

Title: Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials : Principles and Applications
Author: Teruo Nakai
ISBN: 0415557267 / 9780415557269
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 374
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2012
Availability: Out of Stock

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Written by a veteran geotechnical engineer with a long record of research discoveries, Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: Principles and Applications presents a simple and unified approach to modeling various features of geomaterials in general stress systems. The book discusses the fundamentals of the constitutive modeling of soils and illustrates the application of these models to boundary value problems.

Helping readers easily understand the fundamentals and modeling of soil behaviors, the author first explains the ideas and formulations for modeling soil features in one-dimensional conditions. He then extends the one-dimensional models to three-dimensional models using the tij concept. The text covers the subloading tij model and other methods that describe density, bonding, time effect, and more. Moving on to the practical application of the constitutive models, the author presents the numerical simulations of typical geotechnical problems (numerical modeling) and the corresponding model tests (physical modeling).

Using a framework that leads to a unified set of material parameters, this book shows how to formulate a constitutive model capable of simulating the main features of soil behavior. It not only covers recent methods and models but also uses real test data to prove their reliability.

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Introduction

Part I : Modeling of Geomaterials
Chapter 1 :
Fundamentals of Conventional Elastoplasticity
Chapter 2 : Modeling of One-Dimensional Soil Behavior
Chapter 3 : Ordinary Modeling of Three-Dimensional Soil Behavior
Chapter 4 : Unified Modeling of Three-Dimensional Soil Behavior Based on the tij Concept
Chapter 5 : Three-Dimensional Modeling of Various Soil Features Based on the tij Concept
Chapter 6 : Conclusions of Part 1

Part II : Numerical and Physical Modeling of Geotechnical Problems
Chapter 7 :
Introduction to Numerical and Physical Modeling
Chapter 8 : Tunneling
Chapter 9 : Earth Pressure of Retaining Walls and Bearing Capacity of Foundations
Chapter 10 : Reinforced Soils
Chapter 11 : Localization and Shear Band Development in Element Tests
Chapter 12 : Conclusions of Part 2

References
Index