ABSTRACT

This book aims to give the reader a short, tractable and as far as possible complete introduction to the young theory of hypoplasticity, which is a new approach to constitutive modelling of granular media in terms of rational continuum mechanics.

chapter 1|5 pages

Simple questions and answers

chapter 2|11 pages

Experimental results on soil behaviour

chapter 3|16 pages

Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics

chapter 4|20 pages

Hypoplasticity

chapter 5|13 pages

Uniqueness and limit loads

chapter 6|22 pages

Exercises