Dr. Wai-Fah Chen was Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2006. From 1976 to 1999, he was Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University and George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering; prior to that he taught at Lehigh University. The author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and author or co-author of 20 books, his primary areas of research are constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 — Introduction
Chapter 2 — The Assumptions and Theorems Used in Limit Analysis
Chapter 3 — Limit Analysis by the Upper-Bound Method
Chapter 4 — Limit Analysis by the Lower-Bound Method
Chapter 5 — Progressive Failure of Footings
Chapter 6 — Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings
Chapter 7 — Bearing Capacity of Square, Rectangular and Circular Footings
Chapter 8 — Active and Passive Earth Pressures
Chapter 9 — Stability of Slopes
Chapter 10 — Bearing Capacity of Concrete Blocks or Rock
Chapter 11 — Double-Punch Test for Tensile Strength of Concrete, Rock and Soils
Chapter 12 — Soil Plasticity—Theory and Application
References
Author Index
Subject Index