Attempts to summarize the major developments in the field of plasticity theory for geotechnical materials and its applications to geotechnical analysis and design. This book covers several developments of appropriate constitutive theories of stress-strain relations for geomaterials and a range of analytical and computational techniques.

"Plasticity and Geotechnics" is the first attempt to summarize and present, in one volume, the major developments achieved to date in the field of plasticity theory for geotechnical materials and its applications to geotechnical analysis and design. The author believes that there is an urgent need for the geotechnical and solid mechanics community to have a unified presentation of plasticity theory and its application to geotechnical engineering. In its thorough, comprehensive treatment of the subject, the book covers classical, recent, and modern developments of appropriate constitutive theories of stress-strain relations for geomaterials and a wide range of analytical and computational techniques that are available for solving geotechnical design problems. The emphasis is on key concepts behind the most useful theoretical developments, the inter-relation of these concepts, and their implementation in numerical procedures for solving practical problems in geotechnical engineering.

Foreword by J.B. Burland.- Preface.- PART I. FUNDAMENTALS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Elements of continuum mechanics.- 3. Foundations of the theory of plasticity.- 4. General elastic-plastic theorems.- PART II. CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS.- 5. Perfect plasticity.- 6. Isotropic hardening and critical state theory.- 7. Multi-surface and bounding surface plasticity.- 8. Non-coaxial plasticity.- 9. Plasticity without a prior yield criterion.- PART III. SOLUTION TECHNIQUES.- 10. Rigorous analysis of elastic-plastic problems.- 11. Slip line analysis.- 12. Limit analysis.- 13. Shakedown analysis.- 14. Finite element analysis.- Index.