many contemporary advanced constitutive models describing behavior soil ref name wood soil behavior critical state soil mechanics wood david muir cambridge university press ref geotechnical centrifuge modeling method testing physical scale models geotechnical problems use centrifuge enhances similarity scale model tests involving soil strength stiffness soil sensitive confining pressure centrifugal acceleration allows researcher obtain large prototype scale stresses small physical models soil mechanics phase diagram soil indicating weights volumes air
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