Abstract
The two previous chapters deal at length with the two dominant features of soils and other compressible materials. They are, on one hand, the relationship between compression-decompression and volumetric deformation or strain, Chap. 11, and on the other hand, the relationship between shear and distortional deformation or strain, Chap. 12. This permitted the development of two time dependent stress-strain relationships, the two constitutive equations. However, neither of these relationships can, by itself, provide any hint as to the strength of the material. In the present chapter we will show that the strength of the material depends on the interaction between the two relationships mentioned. We will also show that some of the existing failure theories evolve as particular cases of this interaction.
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Klausner, Y. (1991). Failure. In: Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics of Soils. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1677-6_13
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