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
20 - Computing in Soil Mechanics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- 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
For civil engineering, calculations are of central importance; they provide a sense of security. However, in soil mechanics the reliability of calculations is reduced for several reasons: aside from incomplete constitutive equations and their calibration based on experiments burdened with errors, some other problems are the spatial scatter of soil properties, missing knowledge of the initial stress field and infinite extending of the considered bodies. Validations reveal the poor reliability of computation results. To cope with such problems increased margins of safety, cautious building (observational method) and reliance upon authorities like experts, computer codes and codes of practice are used.
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- A Primer on Theoretical Soil Mechanics , pp. 170 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022