Multiscale geomechanics : from soil to engineering projects

Multiscale geomechanics : from soil to engineering projects / edited by Pierre-Yves Hicher.

"This book addresses the latest issues in multiscale geomechanics. Written by leading experts in the field as a tribute to Jean Biarez (1927-2006), it can be of great use and interest to researchers and engineers alike. A brief introduction describes how a major school of soil mechanics came in...

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Other Authors: Hicher, Pierre-Yves
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Hoboken, N.J. : ISTE ; John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Series:ISTE.
Subjects:
Biarez, Jean.
Biarez, Jean
Engineering geology > Mathematical models.
Soil mechanics > Mathematical models.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Structural.
Engineering geology > Mathematical models
Soil mechanics > Mathematical models
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Jean Biarez: His Life and Work; 1.1. Early years and arrival in Grenoble; 1.2. From Grenoble to Paris; 1.3. The major research interests of Jean Biarez; 1.4. Research and teaching; 1.5. Conclusion; Chapter 2. From Particle to Material Behavior: the Paths Chartered by Jean Biarez; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The available tools, the variables analyzed and limits of the proposed analyses; 2.3. Analysis of geometric anisotropy; 2.4. Analysis of the distribution of contact forces in a granular material; 2.5. Analysis of local arrays.
  • 2.6. Particle breakage2.7. Conclusion; 2.8. Bibliography; Chapter 3. Granular Materials in Civil Engineering: Recent Advances in the Physics of Their Mechanical Behavior and Applications to Enginee; 3.1. Behavior resulting from energy dissipation by friction; 3.1.1. Introduction; 3.1.2. Fundamentals; 3.1.3. Main practical consequences; 3.1.4. Conclusions; 3.2. Influence of grain breakage on the behavior of granular materials; 3.2.1. Introduction to the grain breakage phenomenon; 3.2.2. Scale effect in shear strength; 3.3. Practical applications to construction design.
  • 3.3.1. A new method for rational assessment of rockfill shear strength envelo3.3.2. Incidence of scale effect on rockfill slope stability; 3.3.3. Scale effects on deformation features; 3.4. Conclusions; 3.5. Bibliography; Chapter 4. Waste Rock Behavior at High Pressures: Dimensioning High Waste Rock Dumps; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Development of new laboratory equipment for testing coarse materials; 4.2.1. Triaxial and oedometric equipment at the IDIEM; 4.3. Mining rock waste; 4.3.1. In situ grain size distribution; 4.3.2. Analyzed waste rock.
  • 4.4. Characterization of mechanical behavior of the waste rock4.4.1. Oedometric tests; 4.4.2. Triaxial tests; 4.4.3. Oedometric test results; 4.4.4. Triaxial test results; 4.5. Evolution of density; 4.6. Stability analysis and design considerations; 4.7. Operation considerations; 4.7.1. Basal drainage system; 4.7.2. Water management; 4.7.3. Foundation conditions; 4.7.4. Effects of rain and snow; 4.7.5. Effects of in situ leaching on waste rock; 4.7.6. Designing for closure; 4.8. Conclusions; 4.9. Acknowledgements; 4.10. Bibliography.
  • Chapter 5. Models by Jean Biarez for the Behavior of Clean Sands and Remolded Clays at Large Strains5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Biarez's model for the oedometer test; 5.3. Perfect plasticity state and critical void ratio; 5.4. Normally and overconsolidated isotropic loading; 5.4.1. Analogy between sands and clays; 5.4.2. Normally consolidated state (ISL); 5.4.3. Overconsolidated state (Cs); 5.5. The drained triaxial path for sands and clays; 5.5.1. The reference behavior; 5.5.2. The mathematical model; 5.6. The undrained triaxial path for sands.

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