A LARGE-STRAIN ANALYTICAL SOLUTION FOR CAVITY CONTRACTION IN DILATANT SOILS

An infinite dilatant elastic-plastic soil mass contains a single cylindrical or spherical cavity within which a slowly increasing pressure is applied. The removal of the cavity pressure takes place after a partly plastic state of the soil has been reached. Closed form solutions for the stress and di...

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Main Authors: Yu, H, Houlsby, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Ltd 1995