Soil-Machine Interactions: A Finite Element Perspective / Edition 1

by Jie Shen

Overview

Aiming to improve work efficiency in such areas as tillage in agriculture, earth-moving in civil engineering, and tunnel-making in sea-bed operations, this work offers an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems. It explains the advantage of FEM's numerical approach over traditional analytical and empirical methods of dealing with complex factors from nonlinear mechanical behaviour to geometric configurations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824700812
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/10/1998
Series:	Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment , #66
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shen, Jie

Table of Contents

Basic procedures in a finite element analysis; constitutive models for agricultural soils; simulation of soil-metal interfaces; algorithms in static, dynamic, linear and non-linear finite element analyses; examples of soil-tool; programming techniques for finite element analyses.

Editorial Reviews

"...well written and the material has been logically mounted and presented. The authors have performed a very valuable service...by providing the material in this book in a fashion that permits one to grasp the essential elements of the complex procedures required in the application of the FEM of analysis of the stability of interfacing bodies. The book can be well recommended. ... It provides a very basic development of the method of application of finite element analysis as a tool for the study of interfacing elements."
—-Journal of Terramechanics, 2001

From the Publisher

...well written and the material has been logically mounted and presented. The authors have performed a very valuable service...by providing the material in this book in a fashion that permits one to grasp the essential elements of the complex procedures required in the application of the FEM of analysis of the stability of interfacing bodies. The book can be well recommended...It provides a very basic development of the method of application of finite element analysis as a tool for the study of interfacing elements.

Journal of Terramechanics

Provides an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems, with an emphasis on soil-tool systems. Coverage includes soil-constitutive and soil-metal interface models; constitutive models of elastic, plastic, and dynamic agricultural soils; typical interface elements and stress-displacement relation models; algorithms for static or dynamic and linear or nonlinear cases; time- and space-efficiency techniques; and theoretical, programming, and design procedures. Including abundant case studies and illustrations, the volume should serve as a suitable reference for agricultural, biosystems, civil, forest, mechanical, automotive, and lubrication engineers; also as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduates in these disciplines. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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