By R. Chambon (auth.), Stéphane Bonelli, Cristian Dascalu, François Nicot (eds.)
ISBN-10: 9400714203
ISBN-13: 9789400714205
This e-book provides contributions to the ninth foreign Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials held in Porquerolles, France, might 23-26, 2011. This sequence of meetings, begun within the early Nineteen Eighties, is devoted to the examine on degradation and instability phenomena in geomaterials.
The quantity gathers a chain of manuscripts through great overseas students reflecting fresh tendencies in theoretical and experimental examine in geomechanics. It contains contributions on themes like instability research, localized and diffuse failure description, multi-scale modeling and purposes to geo-environmental issues.
This ebook should be priceless for an individual drawn to the study on degradation and instabilities in geomechanics and geotechnical engineering, attractive to graduate scholars, researchers and engineers alike.
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