Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Stress and strain
- 2 Elastic and inelastic material behaviour
- 3 Yield
- 4 Plastic flow
- 5 Collapse load theorems
- 6 Slip line analysis
- 7 Work hardening and modern theories for soil behaviour
- Appendices
- A Non-Cartesian coordinate systems
- B Mohr circles
- C Principles of virtual work
- D Extremum principles
- E Drucker's stability postulate
- F The associated flow rule
- G A uniqueness theorem for elastic–plastic deformation
- H Theorems of limit analysis
- I Limit analysis and limiting equilibrium
- Index
- References
E - Drucker's stability postulate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Stress and strain
- 2 Elastic and inelastic material behaviour
- 3 Yield
- 4 Plastic flow
- 5 Collapse load theorems
- 6 Slip line analysis
- 7 Work hardening and modern theories for soil behaviour
- Appendices
- A Non-Cartesian coordinate systems
- B Mohr circles
- C Principles of virtual work
- D Extremum principles
- E Drucker's stability postulate
- F The associated flow rule
- G A uniqueness theorem for elastic–plastic deformation
- H Theorems of limit analysis
- I Limit analysis and limiting equilibrium
- Index
- References
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- Plasticity and Geomechanics , pp. 255 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002