Advanced Numerical Applications and Plasticity in Geomechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages ii-vii

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2. Internal Length-Scales in Damaged Solids: a Lagrange Multiplier Approach

   • Elena Benvenuti, Benjamin Loret

   Pages 1-23

3. Laboratory Investigation and Numerical Modelling of Soil Improvement Techniques

   • Annamaria Cividini

   Pages 25-56

4. Application of Elasto-Plastic Analysis to Tunnelling

   • Annamaria Cividini, Giancarlo Gioda, Donatella Sterpi

   Pages 57-80

5. Nonlinear Problems During Consolidation Process

   • Janusz M. Dłużewski

   Pages 81-158

6. Stability analysis of highly variable soils by elasto-plastic finite elements

   • D. V. Griffiths

   Pages 159-229

7. Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Couplings in Soils

   • Benjamin Loret, Alessandro Gajo, Tomasz Hueckel

   Pages 231-252

8. Thermo-Mechanical Potentials for Unsaturated Soils

   • Benjamin Loret, Nasser Khalili

   Pages 253-275

9. Advanced Numerical Modelling of Granular Soils

   • Peter Keith Woodward

   Pages 277-333

Numerical application of Plasticity to Geomechanics is an area of research that has grown rapidly since its origins in the late 1960s. This growth led to new methodologies and analysis approaches that are nowadays commonly employed in Geotechnical Engineering practice. Through the contribution of well-known scholars this book intends to provide an updated overview of some relevant developments and applications in this field. The topics covered in the various chapters of the volume can be summarised as follows: constitutive models for geomaterials, "damage|” soil mechanics, non-linear consolidation, swelling soils, influence of the statistical variability of soil properties on the stability of slopes and foundations, numerical analysis of ground improvement techniques, tunneling problems.

• damage
• finite element method
• geomechanics
• material
• mechanics
• numerical modelling
• plasticity
• solid
• stability

• Colorado School of Mines, USA

  Vaughan D. Griffiths

• Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  Giancarlo Gioda

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