Chandrakant S. Desai, J. T. Christian ... 783 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill; (September, 1977) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0070165424 - ISBN-13: 978-0070165427. CONTENTS: 1 / INTRODUCTION, NUMERICAL METHODS, AND SPECIAL TOPICS Chandrakant S. Desai and John T. Christian 2/ CONSTITUTIVE LAWS FOR GEOLOGIC MEDIA 65 John T. Christian and Chandrakant S. Desai 3/ VISCOPLASTICITY: A GENERALIZED MODEL FOR DESCRIPTION OF SOIL BEHAVIOR 116 O. C. Zienkiewicz and C. Humpheson 4/ FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR DISCONTINUOUS ROCKS Richard E. Goodman and Christopher St. John 5 / BEAMS, SLABS, AND PAVEMENTS Y. K. Cheung 6/ SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS John T. Christian 7/ DEEP FOUNDATIONS Chandrakant S. Desai 8/ WAVE EQUATION ANALYSIS OF PILING BEHAVIOR Harry M. Coyle, Lee L. Lowery, Jr., and Teddy J. Hirsch 9/ LATERALLY LOADED PILES Lymon C. Reese and Chandrakant S. Desai 10 / SETTLEMENT OF PILE FOUNDATIONS Harry G. Poulos 11 / ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION Robert L. Schiffman and Santosh K. Arya 12/ TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION John T. Christian 13/ FOUNDATIONS IN EXPANSIVE SOILS Robert L. Lytton 14/ FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA Chandrakant S. Desai 15/ STATIC ANALYSIS OF EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES G. W. Clough and Y. Tsui 16/ EMBANKMENTS AND EXCAVATIONS Fred H. Kulhawy 17 / NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELING Ian M. Smith 18/ STATIC ANALYSIS FOR UNDERGROUND OPENINGS IN JOINTED ROCK Walter Wittke 19/ SOIL AMPLIFICATION OF EARTHQUAKES Jose M. Roesset 20 / TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC ANALYSES John T. Christian, Jose M. Roesset, and Chandrakant S. Desai 21/ STABILITY ANALYSIS BY PLASTICITY THEORY 1. R. Booker and E. H. Davis