Arnold Verruijt ... 433 pages - Publisher: Springer; (January, 2010) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 9048134404 - ISBN-13: 978-9048134403 ...
This book presents the basic principles of soil dynamics, and a
variety of solutions of practical interest for geotechnical engineering,
geophysics and earthquake engineering. Emphasis is on analytical
solutions, often including the full derivation of the solution, and
giving the main parts of computer programs that can be used to calculate
numerical data. Reference is also made to a website from which complete
computer programs can be downloaded. Soil behaviour is usually assumed
to be linear elastic, but in many cases the effect of viscous damping or
hysteretic damping, due to plastic deformations, is also considered. Special
features are: the analysis of wave propagation in saturated
compressible porous media, approximate analysis of the generation of
Rayleigh waves, the analysis of the response of soil layers to
earthquakes in the deep rock, with a theoretical foundation of such
problems by the propagation of Love waves, and the solution of such
basic problems as the response of an elastic half space to point loads,
line loads, strip loads and moving loads. Includes detailed derivations of solutions - Includes listings of main parts of computer programs - Computer programs are available from the website http://geo.verruijt.net - Includes dynamics of porous media. Audience: Students and staff in soil dynamics at civil engineering, geophysics and earthquake engineering departments.