Granular Geomechanics

• Author : Matthew R. Kuhn
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 18 April 2017

Granular Geomechanics provides a comprehensive exploration of soils as granular materials and the manner in which a soil’s engineering properties form grain-scale mechanics. The book focuses on granular composition and packing, grain interactions, discrete granular modeling and continuum constitutive modeling. Provides a coherent presentation on granular geomechanics for engineers Presents essential background information in each chapter, along with a list of works for further study Uses tensor notation, also including a brief explanation of conventions and operations in the

• Author : Etienne Frossard
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 25 October 2018

This book develops a new vision in geomechanics which will be of interest to researchers and engineers. It begins with the key theoretical features of dissipative structures induced by elementary contact friction within geomaterials in slow motion, their multi-scale expression in key tensor relations and associated features including strain localization and shear banding.

• Author : Salah Khalfallah
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 14 August 2018

Using a general approach, this book supports the student to enable mastery of the methods of analysis of isostatic and hyperstatic structures. To show the performance of the methods of analysis of the hyperstatic structures, selected beams, gantries and reticular structures are selected and subjected to a comparative study by the different methods of analysis of the hyperstatic structures.

• Author : Alain Puech,Jacques Garnier
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 04 January 2018

Recent developments in the fields of energy, transport and industrial engineering have led to the emergence of new types of structures and infrastructures subject to variable stresses, for which the usual methods for designing pile foundations are now inadequate. The recommendations presented in this book will help to partly fill this technical gap by proposing a methodological approach and calculation methods to take account of the effects of cyclic loads in the design of foundations on piles. These are based

• Author : Jacques Monnet
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 11 January 2016

This book deals with in-situ tests that are performed in geotechnics to identify and characterize the soil. These measurements are then used to size the Civil Engineering works This book is intended for engineers, students and geotechnical researchers. It provides useful information for use and optimal use of in-situ tests to achieve a better book adaptation of civil engineering on the ground

• Author : Xavier Lauzin
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 07 August 2017

"This standard assumes that the structure, after completion, is used as intended in the project and subject to planned inspection and maintenance to meet the expected project lifetime and to detect any unforeseen weakness or behavior" (EN 13670 §4.1) An important decision factor in the design of new structures and repairs to existing structures is the lifetime or expected service life. This concept, which is common for civil engineering works, has been extended to all engineering and building works by applying the

• Author : Panagiotis Kotronis
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 05 November 2019

This book brings together a selection of the scientific results of the RI ADAPTCLIM project (International Network on Risk Assessment and Climatic Adaptation of Civil Engineering and Buildings Works). Funded by the Pays de la Loire region in France as part of the 2014 Stratégie Internationale call for projects, research teams from the scientific group LiRGeC (ECN, UN, IFSTTAR, CSTB) and several international partners contributed their human, experimental and digital resources. RI-ADAPTCLIM was established to study the short- and medium

• Author : Geneviève Zembri-Mary
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 05 November 2019

Those tasked with the planning and construction of infrastructure and development operations face an increasingly uncertain context in which they must address risks across a number of different fields. These range from the environmental and archaeological to the social, political and financial. As a consequence, the formal and informal practices of stakeholders often incorporate projections of risk and opportunity. Project Risks analyzes this paradigm shift. It reviews the origin and nature of these uncertainties, and the practices implemented by the

• Author : Ioan R. Ionescu,Sylvain Queyreau,Catalin R. Picu,Oguz Umut Salman
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 30 December 2019

Chronicling the 11th US–France Mechanics and physics of solids at macro- and nano-scales symposium, organized by ICACM (International Center for Applied Computational Mechanics) in Paris, June 2018, this book addresses the breadth of issues raised. It covers a comprehensive range of scientific and technological topics (from elementary plastic events in metals and materials in harsh environments to bio-engineered and bio-mimicking materials), offering a representative perspective on state-of-the-art research and materials. Expounding on the issues related to mesoscale modeling, the first

• Author : Delphine Brancherie,Pierre Feissel,Salima Bouvier,Adnan Ibrahimbegovic
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 30 November 2017

Mechanical behaviors of materials are highly influenced by their architectures and/or microstructures. Hence, progress in material science involves understanding and modeling the link between the microstructure and the material behavior at different scales. This book gathers contributions from eminent researchers in the field of computational and experimental material modeling. It presents advanced experimental techniques to acquire the microstructure features together with dedicated numerical and analytical tools to take into account the randomness of the micro-structure.

• Author : Christian La Borderie,Thierry Reess,Wen Chen,Olivier Maurel,Franck Rey-Berbeder,Antoine de Ferron
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 10 February 2016

This book presents a new fracturing technique that should be considered as a potential alternative, or a companion technique, to hydraulic fracturing of tight gas reservoirs and low permeability rock masses. As opposed to hydraulic fracturing which generates a few numbers of large cracks, electro-hydraulic fracturing induces diffuse micro-cracking and fragmentation of rocks. Laboratory tests demonstrate that increases of permeability by two orders of magnitude can be reached, without major cracking in tested specimens. This book discusses the principles of

• Author : Francis Barre,Philippe Bisch,Daniele Chauvel,Jacques Cortade,Jean-Fran?ois Coste,Jean-Philippe Dubois,Silvano Erlicher,Etienne Gallitre,Jacky Mazars,Pierre Labb?,Claude Rospar,Alain Sellier,Jean-Michel Torrenti,Fran?ois Toutlemonde
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 29 August 2016

This book presents new guidelines for the control of cracking in massive reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Understanding this behavior during construction allows engineers to ensure properties such as durability, reliability, and water- and air-tightness throughout a structure’s lifetime. Based on the findings of the French national CEOS.fr project, the authors extend existing engineering standards and codes to advance the measurement and prediction of cracking patterns. Various behaviors of concrete under load are explored within the chapters of

• Author : Arnaud Perrot
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 10 April 2019

The introduction of digital manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing applied to concrete material, opens up new perspectives on the way in which buildings are designed. Research on this theme is thriving and there is a high rate of innovation related to concrete. At the same time, the first life-size constructions made from printed concrete are emerging from the ground. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge on the different printing processes as well as on the concrete material that must adapt

• Author : J. Sulem,I.G. Vardoulakis
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 02 June 2004

This book examines the experimental and theoretical aspects of bifurcation analysis as applied to geomechanics. Coverage includes basic continuum mechanics for dry and fluid unfiltrated porous media, bifurcation and stability analyses applied to layered geological media and granular materials, and theories for generalized continua as applied to materials with microstructure and in relation to strain localization phenomena.

• Author : Wei Wu,Hai-Sui Yu
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 22 November 2006

This book is loaded with rich and stimulating articles by a roster of brilliant scholars, reflecting some recent trends in the frontier research of geomechanics. This collection of 32 contributions stems from an international workshop on "Modern Trends of Geomechanics" held in Vienna. The contributions span a wide range of topics and an enormous range of physical scales, from micromechanics at grain scale to engineering problems at large scale; from laboratory and field testing over constitutive modelling to numerical analysis. The