S. Springman (ed.)

Constitutive and Centrifuge Modelling

Two Extremes: Proceedings of the Workshop on Constitutive and Centrifuge Modelling, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 8-13 July 2001
Herausgeber: Springman, S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The extremes of constitutive and centrifuge modelling are explored here, with a range of lectures addressing specific areas of these two types of modelling as well as on specific design problems and the themes of failure, deformations and interfac...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 941g
• ISBN-13: 9789058093615
• ISBN-10: 9058093611
• Artikelnr.: 22906092

Autorenporträt

Sarah Springman, Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Modelling & truth at Monte Verita; Special lectures & events, The
Tower of Pisa is back to the future Constitutive cladistics: the progeny of
Critical State Soil Mechanics(+ Discussion) Micro-geomechanics
(+Discussion) Centrifuge technology(+ Discussion) The philosophy of
modelling versus testing(+ Discussion) Impact of centrifuge modelling on
offshore foundation design(+ Discussion) Construction of models in the ETH
Zurich drum centrifuge(+ Discussion) The Seven Ages of Centrifuge Modelling
Problems governed by failure: Observed failures of laboratory sand samples
and constitutive modelling, Centrifuge modelling of failures and safe
structures, The use of centrifuge modelling to investigate progressive
failure of overconsolidated clay embankments, Localisation and critical
states, Influence of the structure on the mechanical behaviour of sand,
Combined loading of a jack-up unit, Centrifuge modelling of caisson
capacity under uplift loading, Discussion on problems governed by FAILURE,
Problems governed by deformation, Difficulties related to numerical
predictions of deformation, Measurement of displacement - Trends or
numbers? Time effects in creep of sands, A few observations on the rheology
of powder-binder systems, Experimental investigations on sand under cyclic
loading, Deformation behaviour of a soft Swiss lacustrine clay, First
results oftriaxial creep tests on permafrost soil samples, Discussion on
problems governed by DEFORMATION, Problems governed by interfaces:
Constitutive modelling of soil and rock interacting with interfaces, Size
effects in shear interfaces, Observing friction fatigue on a jacked pile,
Experimental observations of interface friction, Discussion on problems
governed by INTERFACES, Closure.