Slope Analysis Using Boundary Elements

✍ Scribed by Yansheng Jiang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Series: Lecture Notes in Engineering 52
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to provide a new angle on the analysis of slope stability with the Boundary Element Method. The main advantages of BEM are the reduction of the dimensionality of the problem to be solved and accurate selective calculation of internal stresses. This makes it possible, as shown in the book, to develop the algorithms of slip surface analysis of slope more accurate, more rigorous and more easy to be used than in the conventional limit equilibrium methods. The full elastoplastic analysis of slope is also investigated. Besides, the interested reader can find a detailed study of Melan's fundamental solution such as its displacements, its corresponding Galerkin tensor and the treatment of body forces in the half-plan. The basic theory of BEM is outlined in the book so that undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, mining engineering and engineering geology can read it without difficulty.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-IV
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Basic Theory and Techniques of Boundary Element Method....Pages 11-23
Galerkin Tensor and Transformation of Body Force Integral....Pages 24-46
Direct Boundary Element Approaches for Slope Stability Analysis....Pages 47-81
Indirect Boundary Element Algorithm for Slope Stability Analysis....Pages 82-97
General Conclusions....Pages 98-99
Back Matter....Pages 100-180

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy;Geotechnical Engineering &Applied Earth Sciences;Geography (general);Math. Applications in Chemistry;Computational Intelligence;Mechanics