Constitutive Modeling of Soils and Rocks

Pierre-Yves Hicher lectures at L'Ecole Centrale, Nantes, France. Jian-Fu Shao is a Professor at the University of Science and Technology, Lille, France.

This title provides a comprehensive overview of elastoplasticity relating to soil and rocks. Following a general outline of the models of behavior and their internal structure, each chapter develops a different area of this subject relating to the author's particular expertise. The first half of the book concentrates on the elastoplasticity of soft soils and rocks, while the second half examines that of hard soils and rocks.

Chapter 1. The major classes of constitutive relations (F. Darve). Chapter 2. Stress-strain relationship of soils (J. Biarez and P.-Y. Hicher). Chapter 3. Elastoplastic models for soils: monotonic loading (P. Mestat). Chapter 4. Elastoplastic models for soils: cyclic loading (B. Cambou and P.-Y. Hicher). Chapter 5. Plastic behavior of porous rocks (J.F. Shao and S. Homand). Chapter 6. Incremental constitutive relations for soils (R. Chambon, F. Darve and F. Laouafa). Chapter 7. Viscoplastic behavior of soils (P.-Y. Hicher and I. Shahrour). Chapter 8. Modeling damage in rock materials (A. Dragon). Chapter 9. Change of scale and damage modeling due to mesofissuring in rocks (D. Kondo, F. Homand and D. Hoxha). Chapter 10. Poromechanical behavior of saturated rocks (J.F. Shao and A. Giraud). Chapter 11. Methods in parameter identification (P.-Y. Hicher and J.F. Shao). List of Authors. Index.