In the past fifteen years experimental and theoretical characterisation of the pre-failure deformation properties of geomaterials has developed enormously. In recognition of these important research developments a Geotechnique Symposium in Print (SIP) was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1997.
This volume brings together the nineteen Geotechnique SIP papers which summarise the recent developments in measuring and understanding the pre-failure stress-strain-time properties of natural soils, and apply this information to practical engineering problems.
Preface
Part 1
Chapter 1 : Anisotropy of G0 Shear Stiffness in Gault Clay
Chapter 2 : Laser Interferometry to Evaluate The Performance of Local Displacement Tranducers
Chapter 3 : Some Anisotropic Stiffness Characteristics of a Silt Under General Stress Conditions
Chapter 4 : Deformation Characteristics of a Sedimentary Soft Mudstone From Triaxial Compression Tests Using Rectangular Prism Specimens
Chapter 5 : Wave Velocity and Stiffness Measurements of The Crag and Lower London Tertiaries at Sizewell
Chapter 6 : Small -Strain Stiffness of Reconstituted Clay Compressed Along Constant Triaxial Effective Stress Ratio Paths
Chapter 7 : Yielding and Pre-Failure Deformation of Structured Sands
Chapter 8 : Inherent and Stress-State-Induced Anisotropy in Very Small Strain Stiffness of a Sandy Gravel
Chapter 9 : The Influence of Structure on The Pre-Failure Behaviour of a Natural Clay
Chapter 10 : Stiffness of Coarse-Grained Soils at Small Strains
Chapter 11 : Modelling of Non-Linear Deformation Properties of Stiff Geomaterials
Chapter 12 : Viscoplastic Behaviour of Soft Clay
Chapter 13 : Elastic Shear Modulus of Soft Clays From Shear Wave Velocity Measurement
Chapter 14 : Shear Modulus and Damping of Soils
Chapter 15 : Displacements of Bridge Foundations on Sedimentary Soft Rock : a Case Study on Small-Strain Stiffness
Chapter 16 : Interpretation of a Footing Load Test on a Saprolitic Soil From Granite
Chapter 17 : Modelling Pre-Failure Deformation Behaviour of Reinforced Soil Walls
Chapter 18 : Stiffness Determination and Deformation Analysis for a Trial Excavation in Oxford Clay
Chapter 19 : The Influence of Pre-Failure Soil Stiffness on The Numerical Analysis of Tunnel Construction
Part 2
Chapter 20 : Cyclic Deformation Characteristics of Clay Under Different Consolidation Histories
Chapter 21 : Pre-Failure Strain Softening and Pre-Failure Instability of Granular Soil
Chapter 22 : Comparison of Field and Laboratory Stiffness of Gault Clay
Chapter 23 : Yielding and Locking Under Repeated Loading
Chapter 24 : Assessment of Quasi-Linear Models for Sands
Chapter 25 : Cyclic Stiffness of Plastic Silt with an Initial Drained Shear Stress
Chapter 26 : On The Stiffness of Sands
Part 3
Chapter 27 : Stiffness Measurements in a Stress-Path Cell
Chapter 28 : The Influence of Plastic Stains During Compression on The Inherent Anisotropy of G V.Jovicic and M.Coop
Chapter 29 : Variation of Elastic Moduli with Principal Effective Stress
Chapter 30 : On The Use of Comprehensive Soil Models in Geotechnical Analysis
Chapter 31 : Constitutive Modelling : Required Complexity?
Chapter 32 : Experience of The Use of Non-Linear Pre-Failure Constitutive Soil Models
Chapter 33 : Closing Remarks
Index
