| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| List of symbols | p. xvi |
| Introduction: models and soil mechanics | p. 1 |
| Use of models in engineering | p. 1 |
| Soil: volumetric variables | p. 5 |
| Effective stresses: pore pressures | p. 12 |
| Soil testing: stress and strain variables | p. 16 |
| Triaxial apparatus | p. 16 |
| Other testing apparatus | p. 28 |
| Plane strain | p. 31 |
| Pore pressure parameters | p. 33 |
| Conclusion | p. 35 |
| Exercises | p. 35 |
| Elasticity | p. 37 |
| Isotropic elasticity | p. 37 |
| Soil elasticity | p. 40 |
| Anisotropic elasticity | p. 46 |
| The role of elasticity in soil mechanics | p. 52 |
| Exercises | p. 53 |
| Plasticity and yielding | p. 55 |
| Introduction | p. 55 |
| Yielding of metal tubes in combined tension and torsion | p. 57 |
| Yielding of clays | p. 65 |
| Yielding of sands | p. 76 |
| Yielding of metals and soils | p. 81 |
| Exercises | p. 82 |
| Elastic-plastic model for soil | p. 84 |
| Introduction | p. 84 |
| Elastic volumetric strains | p. 85 |
| Plastic volumetric strains and plastic hardening | p. 89 |
| Plastic shear strains | p. 98 |
| Frictional block | p. 99 |
| Plastic potentials | p. 102 |
| Normality or associated flow | p. 103 |
| General plastic stress: strain relationship | p. 106 |
| Summary: ingredients of elastic-plastic model | p. 107 |
| Exercises | p. 109 |
| A particular elastic-plastic model: Cam clay | p. 112 |
| Introduction | p. 112 |
| Cam clay | p. 113 |
| Cam clay predictions: conventional drained triaxial compression | p. 118 |
| Cam clay predictions: conventional undrained triaxial compression | p. 126 |
| Conclusion | p. 136 |
| Exercises | p. 137 |
| Critical states | p. 139 |
| Introduction: critical state line | p. 139 |
| Two-dimensional representations of p':q:v information | p. 144 |
| Critical states for clays | p. 149 |
| Critical state line and qualitative soil response | p. 158 |
| Critical states for sands and other granular materials | p. 162 |
| Conclusion | p. 173 |
| Exercises | p. 173 |
| Strength of soils | p. 175 |
| Introduction: Mohr-Coulomb failure | p. 175 |
| Critical state line and undrained shear strength | p. 179 |
| Critical state line and pore pressures at failure | p. 186 |
| Peak strengths | p. 188 |
| Peak strengths for clay | p. 196 |
| Interpretation of peak strength data | p. 205 |
| Peak strengths for sand | p. 207 |
| Status of stability and collapse calculations | p. 213 |
| Total and effective stress analyses | p. 215 |
| Critical state strength and residual strength | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | p. 224 |
| Exercises | p. 224 |
| Stress-dilatancy | p. 226 |
| Introduction | p. 226 |
| Plastic potentials, flow rules, and stress-dilatancy diagrams | p. 226 |
| Stress-dilatancy in plane strain | p. 229 |
| Work equations: 'original' Cam clay | p. 236 |
| Rowe's stress-dilatancy relation | p. 239 |
| Experimental findings | p. 244 |
| Strength and dilatancy | p. 250 |
| Conclusion | p. 251 |
| Exercises | p. 252 |
| Index properties | p. 256 |
| Introduction | p. 256 |
| Fall-cone test as index test | p. 257 |
| Properties of insensitive soils | p. 262 |
| Background to correlations | p. 277 |
| Liquid limit | p. 277 |
| Plastic limit | p. 280 |
| Plasticity and compressibility; liquidity and strength | p. 282 |
| Liquidity and critical states | p. 285 |
| Liquidity and normal compression | p. 290 |
| Sensitive soils | p. 296 |
| Strength and overburden pressure | p. 301 |
| Conclusion | p. 308 |
| Exercises | p. 308 |
| Stress paths and soil tests | p. 310 |
| Introduction | p. 310 |
| Display of stress paths | p. 312 |
| Axially symmetric stress paths | p. 314 |
| One-dimensional compression of soil | p. 314 |
| One-dimensional unloading of soil | p. 320 |
| Fluctuation of water table | p. 327 |
| Elements on centreline beneath circular load | p. 328 |
| Plane strain stress paths | p. 330 |
| One-dimensional compression and unloading | p. 330 |
| Elements beneath long embankment | p. 331 |
| Elements adjacent to long excavation | p. 333 |
| Element in long slope | p. 335 |
| General stress paths | p. 336 |
| Undrained strength of soil in various tests | p. 337 |
| Modes of undrained deformation | p. 337 |
| Undrained strengths: Cam clay model | p. 342 |
| Conclusion | p. 351 |
| Exercises | p. 351 |
| Applications of elastic-plastic models | p. 354 |
| Introduction | p. 354 |
| Circular load on soft clay foundation | p. 355 |
| Yielding and generation of pore pressure | p. 355 |
| Yielding and immediate settlement | p. 365 |
| Yielding and coefficient of consolidation | p. 369 |
| Yielding and long-term settlement | p. 372 |
| Finite element analyses of geotechnical problems | p. 376 |
| Inhomogeneities within a triaxial test specimen | p. 377 |
| Centrifuge model of embankment on soft clay | p. 382 |
| Experimental embankment on soft clay at Cubzac-les-Ponts | p. 393 |
| Conclusion | p. 408 |
| Exercises | p. 409 |
| Beyond the simple models | p. 414 |
| Introduction: purpose of models | p. 414 |
| Effects of time | p. 414 |
| Inelastic elastic response | p. 422 |
| Evolution of yield loci | p. 434 |
| Concluding remarks: applicable models | p. 444 |
| References | p. 448 |
| Index | p. 459 |
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