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Informationen zum Autor Ryosuke Kitamura is an emeritus professor at Kagoshima University, Japan. He is a recipient of the 1983 Outstanding Paper Award for Young Researchers of the Japanese Geotechnical Society, the 2003 Outstanding Paper Award of Japan Society of Civil Engineers and JGS Medal for Merit for 2004; and has served as a chairman or member of several technical committees of JSCE and JGS. Kazunari Sako is currently an associate professor of Kagoshima University, Japan. He is a recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Paper Award for Young Researchers of JGE. He serves an editorial member of Japanese Geotechnical Journal, Soils and Foundations, and the Journal of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering. Zusammenfassung The book is focused on the mechanical behaviour of dry, partially saturated and full saturated sandy soil. It explores the inter-particle forces at the point of contact of soil particles and the resultant inter-particle stresses, instead of the total stress and effective stress which are studied in mainstream soil mechanics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Review of probability theory and statistics applicable to soil. Microscopic models of soil using probabilistic distributions. Microscopic physical quantities derived from void ratio and probability distributions. Inter-particle force vectors and inter-particle stress vectors. Modeling of pore water retention by elementary particulate model (EPM). Modeling of pore water and pore air flows by elementary particulate model (EPM). Stability analysis by proposed model. Deformation analysis using proposed models. Numerical simulation for saturated-unsaturated soil tests. Issues to be solved in future. Index.
