Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the[...]

Soils can rarely be described as ideally elastic or perfectly plastic and yet simple elastic and plastic models form the basis for the most traditional geotechnical engineering calculations. With the advent of cheap powerful computers the possibility of performing analyses based on more realistic mo[...]

This book deals with: T. Wichtmann, T. Triantafyllidis: "Behaviour Of Granular Soils Under Environmentally Induced Cyclic Loads"; D. Muir Wood: "Constitutive modelling"; C. di Prisco: "Creep Versus Transient Loading Effects In Geotechnical Problems"; M. Pastor et al: "Mathematical Models For Transie[...]