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Degradations and Instabilities in Geomaterials

  • Modelling the various failure modes in geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete): from theory to applications
  • Most recent developments for modelling bifurcations, instabilities and degradations in geomaterials are presented in the general framework of enriched continuum mechanics
  • New views, methods and tools for medelling failure in geomechanics

Part of the book series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, volume 461)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages ii-x
  2. Fundamentals of constitutive equations for geomaterials

    • Félix Darve, Guillaume Servant
    Pages 1-33
  3. Continuum damage modelling in geomechanics

    • Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Ludovic Jason, Antonio Huerta, Jean-François Dubé
    Pages 77-105
  4. Linear Micro-elasticity

    • Ioannis Vardoulakis
    Pages 107-149
  5. 2nd Gradient Flow Theory of Plasticity

    • Ioannis Vardoulakis
    Pages 151-177
  6. Continuous and discrete modelling of failure in geomechanics

    • Félix Darve, Cédric Lambert
    Pages 197-233
  7. Micromechanical approach to slope stability analysis

    • Francesco Calvetti, Roberto Nova
    Pages 235-254
  8. Ageing and durability of concrete structures

    • Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Khalil Haidar, Ahmed Loukili, Mirvat Omar
    Pages 255-286
  9. Modelling of Landslides: (I) Failure Mechanisms

    • M. Pastor, J. A. Fernandez Merodo, E. Gonzalez, P. Mira, T. Li, X. Liu
    Pages 287-317
  10. Modelling of Landslides: (II) Propagation

    • M. Pastor, M. Quecedo, E. Gonzalez, M. I. Herreros, J. A. Fernandez Merodo, P. Mira
    Pages 319-367

About this book

This book presents the most recents developments in the modelling of degradations (of thermo-chemo-mechanical origin) and of bifurcations and instabilities (leading to localized or diffuse failure modes) taking place in geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete). Applications (landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, concrete and rock ageing, etc.) are discussed in detail.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France

    Felix Darve

  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    Ioannis Vardoulakis

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