Admissible stress fields and arching in piles of sand

Geotechnique

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 529-538

  Michalowski, R L ^a   Park, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limit state design analysis; Plasticity; Sands

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); ELASTICITY; SAND; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

ARCHING; ELASTIC STATES; SLOPING SURFACES; STRESS FIELDS;

PILES;

PLASTICITY; SAND; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 7744235744     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2004.54.8.529     Document Type: Article

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