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Physical Soil Mechanics

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Gerd Gudehus

    1. , Inst. Für Boden- und Felsmechanik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

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  • Soils are complex in composition, state and behaviour
  • Graphical representation helps to lighten the constitutive relations
  • The concept of related evolutions of state and shape works throughout more complex boundary value problems
  • It is a powerful tool which is useful for the description of soils and their properties
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 1-14

  3. Simple psammoids

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 15-110

  4. Simple peloids

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 111-192

  5. Psammoids with reversals

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 193-257

  6. Peloids with reversals

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 259-292

  7. Pore fluid

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 293-312

  8. Bridging gaps

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 313-342

  9. Localization

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 343-384

  10. Fabric

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 385-396

  11. Boundary conditions

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 397-435

  12. One-dimensional evolutions

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 437-483

  13. Plane-parallel evolutions without SSI

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 485-537

  14. Plane-parallel evolutions with SSI

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 539-635

  15. Axi-symmetric evolutions

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 637-711

  16. Less symmetric evolutions

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 713-787

  17. Critical phenomena

    • Gerd Gudehus
    Pages 789-802

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 803-840
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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 and hypoplastic relations with comparative plots. Extensions capture thermal and seismic activations, limitations occur due to localizations and skeleton decay.Attractors in the large characterize boundary value problems from model tests via geotechnical operations up to tectonic evolutions. Validations of hypoplastic calculations are shown with many examples, possible further applications are indicated in detail. This approach is energetically justified and limited by critical points where the otherwise legitimate continuity gets lost by localization and decay. You will be fascinated by the fourth element although or just as it is so manifold.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Inst. Für Boden- und Felsmechanik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Gerd Gudehus

About the author

Gerd Gudehus studied civil engineering in Berlin, where he also completed his doctoral thesis in soil mechanics. In 1973, he became full professor and chairman of the Department of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering at the Institute of Soil and Rock Mechanics, Karlsruhe University. He is head of the Soil Mechanics Section of the German National Geotechnical Society and is engaged in the conservation and restoration of historical retaining walls and in the stabilization of the foundations of historical buildings situated on soft ground.

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