Soil-Machine Interactions - A Finite Element Perspective

Aiming to improve work efficiency in such areas as tillage in agriculture, earth-moving in civil engineering, and tunnel-making in sea-bed operations, this work offers an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems. It explains the advantage of FEM's numerical approach over traditional analytical and empirical methods of dealing with complex factors from nonlinear mechanical behaviour to geometric configurations.

List of contents

Basic procedures in a finite element analysis; constitutive models for agricultural soils; simulation of soil-metal interfaces; algorithms in static, dynamic, linear and non-linear finite element analyses; examples of soil-tool; programming techniques for finite element analyses.

About the author

Shen, Jie

Summary

Aiming to improve work efficiency in such areas as tillage in agriculture, earth-moving in civil engineering, and tunnel-making in sea-bed operations, this work offers an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems.

Product details

• Authors: Jie Shen, Yie Shen, Shen Jie
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.1998
• EAN: 9780824700812
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-0081-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Agricultural science, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Soil science, sedimentology, Soil science and management, Sedimentology and pedology