期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (12)
Although advanced modeling techniques such as the finite element method (FEM) have been used successfully in dynamic site response analysis, the high ......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (10)
Footing foundations are sometimes built on sloping grounds of natural sand which is highly anisotropic. The anisotropic mechanical behaviour of sand c......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (15)
In rock engineering, damage evolution upon loading imposes significant impacts on the stiffness of rock mass and its deformation characteristics. In o......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (13)
This study builds up an elliptical cylindrical equivalent model (ECEM) of prefabricated vertical drains (PVD)-improved foundation which incorporates t......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (10)
To investigate unsaturated soil-water interaction at micro-scale, this study extends the numerical manifold method (NMM) by incorporating a soil-water......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (15)
Strain-softening models have proved effective in treating fracturing under mechanical load. However, these models tend to suffer from mesh-size depend......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (12)
This paper numerically investigates deformation behavior of coarse-grained granular materials with emphasis on the effect of grain size distribution (......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (14)
An indirect boundary element method (IBEM) is developed to solve two-dimensional (2-D) wave diffraction by cavities and cracks in a fluid-saturated po......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (13)
Rock properties evaluations play decisive roles in various geotechnical engineering programs. This work aims at establishing a digital rock parameters......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (13)
The failure process in brittle rocks is an important topic in rock mechanics, whose good understanding assists in predicting the strength and deformat......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (15)
Semi-analytical solutions to one-dimensional (1D) consolidation of the two-layered soils are developed in this paper that can consider a two-layered s......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (11)
Based on the governing equations proposed by Fredlund and Hasan, this paper firstly establishes a mathematical model for one-dimensional consolidation......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (12)
A sequential flow and solidification method was applied to the numerical investigation of flow control technology for grouting and blocking of flowing......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (12)
Reasonable rock bolting schemes for potentially unstable blocks should be proposed and optimized in order to prevent rockfall hazard during tunnel con......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 2021; 45 (13)
This paper studies one-dimensional transient wave propagation in a saturated multi-layered soil with a fluid surface layer. Based on Biot theory, the ......