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In this chapter some useful solutions for the stresses in an elastic half space are given. These solutions were first obtained by the French scientist Joseph Boussinesq in 1885, and can be found in many books on the theory of elasticity.
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Verruijt, A. (2018). Boussinesq. In: An Introduction to Soil Mechanics. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61185-3_27
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