Soil behaviour and critical state soil mechanics / David Muir Wood.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION: MODELS AND SOIL MECHANICS
1.1 Use of models in engineering
1.2 Soil: volumetric variables
1.3 Effective stresses: pore pressures
1.4 Soil Testing; stress and strain variables
1.5 Plane strain, etc.

2. ELASTICITY
2.1 Isotropic elasticity
2.2 Soil elasticity
2.3 Anisotropic elasticity
2.4 The role of elasticity in soil mechanics exercises
exercises


3. OLASTICITY AND YIELDING
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Yielding of metal tubes in combined tension and torsion
3.3 Yielding of clays
3.4 Yielding of sands
3.5 Yielding of metal and soils
exercises

4. ELASTIC-PLASTIC MODEL FOR SOIL
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Elastic volumetric strains
4.3 Plastic volumetric strains and plastic hardening
4.4 Plastic shear strains
4.5 General plastic stress: strain relationship, etc.

5. A PARTICULAR ELASTIC-PLASTIC MODEL: CAM CLAY
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Cam clay
5.3 Cam clay predictions: conventional drained triaxial compression
5.4 Cam clay predictions: conventional undrained triaxial compression
5.5 Conclusion

6. CRITICAL STATES
6.1 Introduction: critical state line
6.2 Two-dimensional representations of p'; q: v information
6.3 Critical states for clays
6.4 Critical state line and qualitative soil response
6.5 Critical state sands and other granular materials, etc.

7. STRENGTH OF SOILS
7.1 Introduction: mohr-coulomb failure
7.2 Critical state line and undrained shear strength
7.3 Critical state line and pore pressures at failure
7.4 Peak strengths
7.5 Status of stability and collapse calculations, etc.

8. STRESS-DILATANCY
1 Introduction
8.2 Plastic potentials, flow rules, and stress-dilatancy diagrams
8.3 Stress-dilatancy in plane strain
8.4 Work equations: 'original' cam clay
8.5 Rowe's stress-dilatancy relation, etc.

9. INDEX PROPERTIES
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Fall-cone test as index test
9.3 Properties of insensitive soils
9.4 Background to correlations
9.5 Sensitive soils, etc.

10. STRESS PATHS AND SOIL TESTS
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Display of stress paths
10.3 Axially symmetric stress paths
10.4 Plane strain stress paths
10.5 General stress paths, etc.

11. APPLICATIONS OF ELASTIC-PLASTIC MODELS
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Circular load on soft clay foundation
11.3 Finite element analyses of geotechnical problems
11.4 Conclusion
Exercises

12. BEYOND THE SIMPLE MODELS.
12.1 Introduction: purpose of models
12.2 Effects of time
12.3 Inelastic elastic response
12.4 Evolution of yield loci
12.5 Concluding remarks: applicable models

Includes References: p. 448-458 . _ Index: p. 459-462