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Geomechanics Abstracts ear constraints. The method is applied to both earth pressure and bearing capacity problems. A ~ e r i c a l example is g i v e n O f passive earth pressure against a retaining wall.
General 805001 ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND GEOTECHNICS Bell, F G London: N e w n e s - B u t - t e ~ s , 1980, 497P A ccmprehensive undergraduate level textbook containing the following chapters: site investigation, geophysical expleration, slopes and open excavation, subsurface excavation, foundations fer buildings, reservoirs, dams and dam sites, hy~rngeology and undergrouni •water supply, river engineering, beach e~gineering, e~gineering seismology, construction materials.
805006 ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS OF GEOTECHNICAL PRO~X~MS BY MATHEMATICAL P R Y I N G Oloda, G; De Donato, 0 Int J N~n Anal Meth Gecmech, V3, N4, Oct-Dec
1979, I:r381-b,01 A numerical technique, based on a mathematical l~OgrAmm~ug algorithm, is presented fer the solution of geotee~nical problems where elasticplastic material behaviour is considered. The loading process is subdivided into a series of steps applied to a finite element mesh with geometry amd material l~operties constant along each step, but with possible chamges between subsequent steps. Some typical geotechnlcal problems are amalysed by means of the proposed algorithm am~ a comparison is made between the available in situ measurements and the ~ i c a l results.
805002 ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, VOL i. THE FIRST 2000 MILLION YEARS OF GEOLOGICAL TIME Brink, A B A Pretoria: Bnilding Publications, 1979, 319P Discusses the e~gine~ing properties of rocks and their weathered derivatives emplaced during the first half Of geological time, from 4000 million years ago to 2000 million years ago, including 20 case histaries. 805003 C(IMPUTATION, EXPLORATION AND DESIGN OF ~ S AND ROCK STRUCTURES Muller, L (editc~) Rock Mech, Suppl 8, 1979, 367P
Properties of Rocks and Soils 8o5oo7
Contains 21 papers given at the 27th Geomechanical Colloq~Imm of the Austrian Society for Geomechanics, Salzburg. Oct 1978. The papers are given separate entries in this issue.
A modelling of the effective anisOtropic elasticity tensor is presented for elastic rocks permea. ted by a rather dilute concentration of stressinduced dry and saturated flat cracks. An exact analytical expression of the 3 wave velocities and attemnations in a ~ oblique direction is obtained fer the various crack distributions considered. A comparison is made with s~herical cavities. This study is lir~ked to ~he mechanical behaviour of cracked rocks under varying stress ard also has relevance in a seismological context to the detection of cracke~ zones and may be useful in the investigation of earthquake dilatancy. Auth.
80500~ 13TH GEOI~CHNICAL CONFPRENCE OF THE ITALIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY, MERANO, JUNE 1979. SPECIAL ISSUE (IN ITALIAN) Riv Ital Geotec, V13, N4, Oct-Dec 1979, P223-3~3 A collection of 15 papers on the topics: foundations of dams and embankments on soil and rock masses, soil-structure interaction, geophysical method s o 805005 OPTIMAL ~ BOUND OF PASSIVE EAR'I~ PRESSURE USING FINITE ELEMENTS AND NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING Bast~lhar, P K; Vaslar~kar, 6. J; Madhav, M R Int J N ~ Anal Meth Geomech, V3, ~ , Oct-Dec 1979, P367-37 9
CRACK-INDUCED ANISOTROPY AND SCATI'ZRING IN STRESSED ROCKS: EFFECTIVE ELASTIC MODULI AND ATTENUATION Piau, M Int J Engrg Sci, VI8, N4, 1980, P5~9-568
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SOIL SAMPLING IN EUROPE: STATE-OF-THE-ART Broms, B B J Geotech Engmg Div ASCE, V106, NGT1, Jan
198o, ~5-98 Relates to the fi~ddng of the lower bound solution using Lym~er's method of li~dt analysis with variations. The method considers the f~mily of plane stress fields having the property that all stresses vary linearly within each triangular element of sOme mesh which covers the scdl mass urde~ study. Far this type of stress field it is possible to exlress all equilibrium conditions as a set of linear constraints and the no-yield as a set of mon-lin-
Sampling methods used in Europe for onshc~e and effahc~e structures are reviewed as well as the disturbance of the samples caused by drilling, sampling, stress release, transportation and storage. The definition amd classification of sample disturbance are considered as well as the deformation l~coperties of both cohesive and cohealonless soils under static and cyclic loading. Auth. 15~ refs.