The analytical method in soil mechanics

The Role of Micro-Mechanics in Soil Mechanics

Soil Compaction and Soil Tillage – Studies in Agricultural Soil Mechanics

Keller, T. 2004. Soil Compaction and Soil Tillage Studies in Agricultural Soil Mechanics Doctoral dissertation. ISSN 1401-6249, ISBN 91-576-6769-1 This thesis deals with various aspects of soil compaction due to agricultural field traffic, the draught force requirement of tillage implements and soil structures produced by tillage. Several field experiments were carried out to study the mechanic...

Soil mechanics: breaking ground.

In soil mechanics, student's models are classified as simple models that teach us unexplained elements of behaviour; an example is the Cam clay constitutive models of critical state soil mechanics (CSSM). 'Engineer's models' are models that elaborate the theory to fit more behavioural trends; this is usually done by adding fitting parameters to the student's models. Can currently unexplained be...

Some Aspects of Modality in Analytical Mechanics

I commemorate David Lewis by describing some of the modal involvements of analytical mechanics. I first review the elementary aspects of the Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches. I then discuss two modal involvements; both are related to Lewis’ work on modality, especially on counterfactuals. The first is the way Hamilton-Jacobi theory uses ensembles, i.e. sets of possible ini...

Some Aspects of Modality in Analytical Mechanics

This paper discusses some of the modal involvements of analytical mechanics. I rst review the elementary aspects of the Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches. I then discuss two modal involvements; both are related to David Lewis' work on modality, especially on counterfactuals. The rst is the way Hamilton-Jacobi theory uses ensembles, i.e. sets of possible initial conditions. ...