Download or read book Granular Geomaterials Dissipative Mechanics written by Etienne Frossard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a new vision in geomechanics which will be of interest to researchers and engineers. It begins with the key theoretical features of dissipative structures induced by elementary contact friction within geomaterials in slow motion, their multi-scale expression in key tensor relations and associated features including strain localization and shear banding.