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This book presents a complete and comprehensive analysis of the behaviour of granular materials including the description of experimental results, the different

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GSP 128 contains papers by 19 prominent constitutive modelers presented at the Geo-Frontier Conference, held in Austin, Texas, January 24-26, 2005.

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