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Modelling Soft Clay Behaviour

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Deformation Analysis in Soft Ground Improvement

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Since the development of predictive techniques for estimating soil displacements is underpinned by, and critically dependent on, the constitutive models adopted to represent the soil response, it seems only natural to describe some of these fundamental tools that have been used successfully to date for this task. This is the rationale for including Chapter 2, which contains a description of some of the techniques that have been used successfully in modelling the mechanical response of soft clay subsoils. Included in this treatment are some of the fundamental stress-strain models used to describe the mechanical behaviour of clays as well as their implementation in the finite element method (FEM). Also presented in this chapter are example analyses to demonstrate the power and significance of these modern numerical techniques. Case histories from Malaysia and Japan are discussed in relation to this form of numerical modelling.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Saga University, Honjo 1, 840-8502, Saga, Japan

    Jinchun Chai

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, 2308, Callaghan, Australia

    John P. Carter

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Chai, J., Carter, J.P. (2011). Modelling Soft Clay Behaviour. In: Deformation Analysis in Soft Ground Improvement. Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1721-3_2

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