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Soil behaviour and critical state soil mechanics david muir wood. He received his phd there in 1974 for research on the true triaxial behaviour of clays, followed by a lectureship from 19751987, moving to glasgow university where he was the cormack chair of civil engineering. One of the major objectives of this book is to describe the basic ingredients of a family of simpleplastic models of soil behavior and to. Pdf soil behaviour and critical state soil mechanics by. This is basically a prequel to david muir woods soil behaviour and critical state soil mechanics, which is something of a soil mechanics bible.
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