Download or read book Degradations and Instabilities in Geomaterials written by Félix Darve and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-11-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most recents developments in the modelling of degradations (of thermo-chemo-mechanical origin) and of bifurcations and instabilities (leading to localized or diffuse failure modes) taking place in geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete). Applications (landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, concrete and rock ageing, etc.) are discussed in detail.