This book presents the lectures of the Symposium on Mechanics of Natural Solids, hold from 7th to 9th September 2009 in Horto, Greece. It delivers a paradigm for the interconnection of the mechanics of soil, rock, ice and snow and also for the interdisciplinary character of the related research. Therefore, thepresented lectures are of fundamental character and address the possible interfaces and the fascinating contents of the several subjects. Presents the lectures of the Symposium on Mechanics of Natural Solids, September 2009 in Horto,Greece Delivers a paradigm for the interconnection of the mechanics of soil, rock, ice and snow Presented lectures are of fundamental character INDICE: Size effects and long term behaviour of coarse granular media.- Nature: A very sophisticated experimentalist.- Confined comminution in granular materials: from discrete to continuum.- Elastic-wave imaging of geomechanical properties and processes.- Sand as an archetypical natural solid.- Physical foundations of sand mechanics.- Experimental studies of the viscoplasticty of ice and snow.- Particle-level processes in the development of discontinuities ingranular materials.- Snow mechanics in view of the transition between a sintered and granular material.- Distinct Element Method (DEM) modelling of laboratory to outcrop-scale fracturing of natural rocks.- Fracture of Ice.- Followingthe energy trail in cohesionless granular solids.- Mechanisms of localized deformation/damage in geomaterials.- Grain crushing, pore collapse and strain localization in porous rock.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-03577-7
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 15/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés