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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1. Introduction

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Chapter 2.Linear Static and Element Performance

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Chapter 3. Material Nonlinearity

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Chapter 4. Dynamics

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Chapter 5. Seepage and Consolidation

145
Chapter 6. Slope Stability Analysis Performance

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Chapter 1
Introduction

Introduction

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Chapter 2
Linear Static
and Element
Performance
2.1 Twisted Beam under Tip
2.2 Curved Cantilevered Beam under Tip Load
2.3 Cantilevered Beam under Various Tip Loads
2.4 Pinched Hemispherical Shell with Hole
2.5 Elliptic Plane Stress under Uniform Outward Pressure
2.6 Plane Truss under Concentrated Load
2.7 Skewed Plate under Uniform Pressure
2.8 Thick Plate under Uniform Pressure
2.9 Cantilever with Variable Thickness
2.10 Scordellis-Lo Barrel Vault
2.11 Z-section Cantilever
2.12 Thick Cylinder Subjected to Internal Pressure Load
2.13 Hemisphere under Point Loads
2.14 Thick/Thin Square Plates
2.15 Cylindrical Shell Patch Test
2.16 Axisymmetric Shell under Pressure
2.17 Stresses Caused by a Point Load
2.18 Stresses Caused by a Line Load
2.19 Stresses Caused by a Circular Load
2.20 Stresses Caused by a Strip Load
2.21 Stress in Soil with Hydrostatic Pressure
2.22 Stress in Partially Saturated Soil
References

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Chapter 3
Material
Nonlinearity

3.1 Modified Cam Clay Model with Drained Condition

3.2 Modified Cam Clay Model with Undrained Condition
3.3 Internally Pressurized Spherical Shell Composed of von Mises Material
3.4 A V-notch Bar composed of Elastic-Perfectly Plastic Tresca Material Model
3.5 Uniformly Loaded Circular Plate
3.6 Two Coaxial Tubes
3.7 Residual Stress Problem
3.8 End-Loaded Tapered Cantilever Composed of Tresca Material Model
3.9 Strip Footing in Sand
3.10 Bearing Capacity of Smooth Square Footing on a Frictionless Material
3.11 Rigid Punch Penetrating into Clay
3.12 Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Mohr-Coulomb Medium
3.13 Strip and Circular Footings on a Mohr-Coulomb Soil
References

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Chapter 4
Dynamics

4.1 Pin-ended Cross

4.2 Thin Square Cantilever Plate
4.3 Simply Supported Thick Annular Plate (Axisymmetric)
4.4 Cantilevered Square Plane Stress
4.5 Cantilevered Tapered Membrane
4.6 Deep Simply Supported Beam
4.7 Simply Supported Thin Square Plate
4.8 Simply Supported Thick Square Plate
4.9 Response Spectrum of a Simply Supported Beam
4.10 Linear Dynamic Analyses of a Truss
4.11 Cantilever Subjected to Earthquake Motion
4.12 Rayleigh Wave Velocity
4.13 FWD Load on Pavement
4.14 Earthquake Response of a Layered Soil Deposit
References

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Chapter 5
Seepage and
Consolidation

5.1 Unconfined Flow on a Horizontal Impermeable Boundary

5.2 Flow through an Earth Dam
5.3 Confined Flow around an Impermeable Wall
5.4 Confined Flow around an Impermeable Dam with a Wall
5.5 Unconfined Flow through a Dam
5.6 Unconfined Flow toward a Riverbank
5.7 Unconfined Flow in Layered Slope with Multiple Seepage Faces
5.8 Pumping a Radial Well
5.9 Terzaghi Consolidation
5.10 Stress in Saturated Soil with Seepage
References

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Chapter 6
Stability
Analysis
Performance

6.1 Homogeneous Slope on Rigid Foundation

6.2 Two-sided Earth Embankment
6.3 Failure of Clay Slope with a Thin Weak Layer
References

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