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
5 - Fields
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
A very short and simple introduction to continuous and discontinuous fields and some related quantities.
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- A Primer on Theoretical Soil Mechanics , pp. 35 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022