Preamble -- Failure Mode and Fundamental Equation -- Characteristic Line Method for Limit Analysis -- Stress Field Method for Limit Analysis -- Limit Equilibrium Method -- Virtual Work Equation-based Generalized Limit Equilibrium Method -- Generalized Limit Equilibrium Method in Plane Failure Mode -- Limit Load on Ground with Heterogeneous Soil -- Ground Bearing Capacity -- Slope Stability -- Slope Stability during Construction and Pore Water Pressure.

This book establishes the equations of limit analysis and provides a complete theoretical basis for foundation capacity, slope stability, and earth pressure. It is divided into three parts, the first of which discusses the failure mode and fundamental equation of soil mass. The second part addresses the solution methods for limit analysis, including the characteristic line method, stress field method, limit equilibrium method, virtual work equation-based generalized limit equilibrium method and generalized limit equilibrium method for the surface failure mode. Lastly, the third part examines the application of the limit analysis theory to soil mass.