Soil mechanics in pavement engineering

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...

The Role of Micro-Mechanics in Soil Mechanics

Keynote Address Achievements and Challenges in Asphalt Pavement Engineering

This series of international conferences has facilitated the development of mechanistic methods for the design and structural evaluation of asphalt pavements over the past 35 years. While the record is one of real achievement, stimulated by initiatives such as the U.S. Strategic Highway Research Program, there are still problems to solve and challenges to face including that of implementing the...

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

This paper deals with the problem of determining the nonlinear response of a plate endowed with fractional derivative elements and exposed to random loads. It shows that an approximate solution of the nonlinear fractional partial differential equation governing the plate vibrations can be obtained via a statistical linearization based approach. The approach is implemented by considering a time-...