Behaviour of stiff clayey soils using fracture mechanics approach
Most of the conventional elastic plastic models of soils are based on continuum mechanics, however, for stiff, hard soils and soft rocks discontinuities develop under load, and since the models assume continuity, they would cease to apply. These discontinuities had not been accounted for in the cont...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Curtin University
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/964 |