TY - BOOK AU - Desai,C.S. AU - Zaman,Musharraf TI - Advanced geotechnical engineering: soil-structure interaction using computer and material models SN - 9781466515604 (hardback) PY - 2014///] CY - Boca Raton, [Florida] PB - CRC Press/Taylor & Francis KW - Soil-structure interaction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 'This book provides readers with a comprehensive treatment of computer methods so that they can use them for teaching, research, and solution of a wide range of practical problems in geotechnical engineering. It discusses factors such as in-situ conditions, elastic, plastic and creep deformations, stress path, volume change, existence of fluids (water), non-homogeneities, inherent and induced discontinuities leading to softening and failure, healing or strengthening, and type of loading'-- ER -