Degradations and Instabilities in Geomaterials

This book presents the most recents developments in the modelling of degradations (of thermo-chemo-mechanical origin) and of bifurcations and instabilities (leading to localized or diffuse failure modes) taking place in geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete). Applications (landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, concrete and rock ageing, etc.) are discussed in detail.

Fundamentals of Constitutive Equations for Geomaterials (F. Darve, G. Servant).- Development of Elastoplastic Strain Hardening Models of Soil Behaviour (R. Nova).- Continuum Damage Modelling in Geomechanics (G. Pijaudier-Cabot, L. Jason , A. Huerta, J.-F. Dubé).- Linear Micro-elasticity (I. Vardoulakis).- Second Gradient Flow Theory of Plasticity (I. Vardoulakis).- Slope Failure and the Loss of Controllability of the Incremental Response of a Soil Specimen Subject to an Arbitrary Loading Programme (R. Nova).- Continuous and Discrete Modelling of Failure in Geomechanics (F. Darve, C. Lambert).- Micromechanical Approach to Slope Stability Analysis (F. Calvetti, R. Nova).- Aeging and Durability of Concrete Structures (G. Pijaudier-Cabot, K. Haidar, A. Loukili, M. Omar).- Modelling of Landslides: Failure Mechanisms (M. Pastor, J. A. Fernandesz Merodo, E. Gonzalez, P. Mira, T. Li, X. Liu); Propagation (M. Pastor, M. Quecedo, E. Gonzalez, M. I. Herreros, J. A. Fernandez Merodo, P. Mira