Research Catalog

Title

Elasticity and geomechanics / R.O. Davis, A.P.S. Selvadurai.

Author

Davis, R. O.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Selvadurai, A. P. S.

Description

xi, 201 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This book concisely examines the use of elasticity in solving geotechnical engineering problems. In a highly illustrated and user-friendly format, it provides a thorough grounding in the linear theory of elasticity and an understanding of the applications, at a level suitable for upper level students in civil engineering and engineering geology. The first two chapters present a basic framework of the theory of elasticity and describe test procedures for the determination of elastic parameters for soils. Chapters 3 and 4 present the fundamental solutions of Boussinesque, Kelvin, and Mindlin, and use these to formulate solutions to problems of practical interest in geotechnical engineering. The book concludes with a sequence of appendixes designed to provide the interested student with details of elasticity theory that are peripheral to the main text. Each chapter concludes with a set of questions for the student to answer.

Subjects

• Elasticity
• Engineering geology > Mathematics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Some ideas from the theory of elasticity -- 2. The elastic constants -- 3. Fundamental solutions -- 4. Applications of fundamental solutions -- App.A The compatibility conditions -- App.B Cauchy's stress principle -- App.C Traction vector on an arbitrary plane -- App.D Uniqueness of solutions in classical elasticity theory -- App.E Saint-Venant's principle -- App.F Principles of virtual work -- App.G Betti's reciprocal theorem.

ISBN

• 0521495067 (hc)
• 0521498279 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95017507^

OCLC

• 32465040
• SCSB-10139952

Owning Institutions

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