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Limit Analysis for Geotechnical Engineering

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Limit analysis is one of the most powerful aspects of the theory of plasticity due to its ability to easily predict approximate values for the collapse load in a very wide range of applications.

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Liu, Y., Zheng, Y. (2019). Limit Analysis for Geotechnical Engineering. In: Plastic Mechanics of Geomaterial. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3753-6_10

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