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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of symbols | |
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| Introduction: models and soil mechanics | |
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| Use of models in engineering | |
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| Soil: volumetric variables | |
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| Effective stresses: pore pressures | |
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| Soil testing: stress and strain variables | |
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| Triaxial apparatus | |
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| Other testing apparatus | |
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| Plane strain | |
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| Pore pressure parameters | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Elasticity | |
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| Isotropic elasticity | |
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| Soil elasticity | |
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| Anisotropic elasticity | |
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| The role of elasticity in soil mechanics | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Plasticity and yielding | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Yielding of metal tubes in combined tension and torsion | |
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| Yielding of clays | |
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| Yielding of sands | |
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| Yielding of metals and soils | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Elastic-plastic model for soil | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Elastic volumetric strains | |
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| Plastic volumetric strains and plastic hardening | |
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| Plastic shear strains | |
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| Frictional block | |
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| Plastic potentials | |
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| Normality or associated flow | |
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| General plastic stress: strain relationship | |
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| Summary: ingredients of elastic-plastic model | |
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| Exercises | |
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| A particular elastic-plastic model: Cam clay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cam clay | |
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| Cam clay predictions: conventional drained triaxial compression | |
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| Cam clay predictions: conventional undrained triaxial compression | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Critical states | |
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| Introduction: critical state line | |
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| Two-dimensional representations of p':q:v information | |
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| Critical states for clays | |
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| Critical state line and qualitative soil response | |
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| Critical states for sands and other granular materials | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Strength of soils | |
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| Introduction: Mohr-Coulomb failure | |
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| Critical state line and undrained shear strength | |
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| Critical state line and pore pressures at failure | |
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| Peak strengths | |
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| Peak strengths for clay | |
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| Interpretation of peak strength data | |
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| Peak strengths for sand | |
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| Status of stability and collapse calculations | |
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| Total and effective stress analyses | |
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| Critical state strength and residual strength | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Stress-dilatancy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Plastic potentials, flow rules, and stress-dilatancy diagrams | |
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| Stress-dilatancy in plane strain | |
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| Work equations: 'original' Cam clay | |
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| Rowe's stress-dilatancy relation | |
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| Experimental findings | |
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| Strength and dilatancy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Index properties | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fall-cone test as index test | |
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| Properties of insensitive soils | |
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| Background to correlations | |
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| Liquid limit | |
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| Plastic limit | |
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| Plasticity and compressibility; liquidity and strength | |
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| Liquidity and critical states | |
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| Liquidity and normal compression | |
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| Sensitive soils | |
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| Strength and overburden pressure | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Stress paths and soil tests | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Display of stress paths | |
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| Axially symmetric stress paths | |
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| One-dimensional compression of soil | |
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| One-dimensional unloading of soil | |
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| Fluctuation of water table | |
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| Elements on centreline beneath circular load | |
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| Plane strain stress paths | |
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| One-dimensional compression and unloading | |
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| Elements beneath long embankment | |
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| Elements adjacent to long excavation | |
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| Element in long slope | |
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| General stress paths | |
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| Undrained strength of soil in various tests | |
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| Modes of undrained deformation | |
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| Undrained strengths: Cam clay model | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Applications of elastic-plastic models | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Circular load on soft clay foundation | |
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| Yielding and generation of pore pressure | |
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| Yielding and immediate settlement | |
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| Yielding and coefficient of consolidation | |
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| Yielding and long-term settlement | |
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| Finite element analyses of geotechnical problems | |
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| Inhomogeneities within a triaxial test specimen | |
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| Centrifuge model of embankment on soft clay | |
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| Experimental embankment on soft clay at Cubzac-les-Ponts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Beyond the simple models | |
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| Introduction: purpose of models | |
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| Effects of time | |
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| Inelastic elastic response | |
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| Evolution of yield loci | |
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| Concluding remarks: applicable models | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |