I. Constitutive Relations for a Granular Material. II. The Distribution of Stresses and Development of Failure at the Toe of a Slope and Around the Tip of a Crack
<p>In the first part of this thesis, a three-dimensional rheological model was constructed to represent the deformation behavior of a granular material. The constitutive relations for a granular material were subsequently derived. The rheological model was conceived from the observed be...