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
14 - Plasticity Theory
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 main principles of plasticity theory are introduced. The collapse theorems are presented as one of the principal applications of plasticity theory in soil mechanics. Some special plasticity theories for soil (Cam-clay theory and Mohr–Coulomb applications) are also presented.
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- A Primer on Theoretical Soil Mechanics , pp. 103 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022