Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Granular Materials as Soft Solids
- 2 Mechanical Behaviour of Soil: Experimental Results
- 3 Mechanical Behaviour of Soil: Intuitively
- 4 Vectors and Tensors
- 5 Fields
- 6 Deformation
- 7 Stress
- 8 Conservation Laws (Balance Equations)
- 9 Internal Friction and Shear Strength
- 10 Collapse
- 11 Constitutive Equations
- 12 Elasticity
- 13 ElasticWaves
- 14 Plasticity Theory
- 15 Hypoplasticity
- 16 Barodesy
- 17 Uniqueness
- 18 Symmetry
- 19 Interaction with Water
- 20 Computing in Soil Mechanics
- 21 Outlook
- References
- Index
10 - Collapse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Granular Materials as Soft Solids
- 2 Mechanical Behaviour of Soil: Experimental Results
- 3 Mechanical Behaviour of Soil: Intuitively
- 4 Vectors and Tensors
- 5 Fields
- 6 Deformation
- 7 Stress
- 8 Conservation Laws (Balance Equations)
- 9 Internal Friction and Shear Strength
- 10 Collapse
- 11 Constitutive Equations
- 12 Elasticity
- 13 ElasticWaves
- 14 Plasticity Theory
- 15 Hypoplasticity
- 16 Barodesy
- 17 Uniqueness
- 18 Symmetry
- 19 Interaction with Water
- 20 Computing in Soil Mechanics
- 21 Outlook
- References
- Index
Summary
The notion of collapse and its importance in geotechnical engineering is introduced. The two main approaches are explained: (i) stress fields that fulfil the Mohr–Coulomb limit condition (together with slip line analysis as an application of the method of characteristics) and (ii) analysis of collapse mechanisms consisting of rigid blocks. The harmonisation of codes and the problematic definition of safety on the basis of probability theory are discussed.
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- A Primer on Theoretical Soil Mechanics , pp. 69 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022