Numerical solution for consolidation and desiccation of soft soils

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-161

  Yao, Daniel T C ^a   de Oliveira Filho, Waldyr Lopes ^b   Cai, Xiao Chuan ^c   Znidarcic, Dobroslav ^c  

^a West Incorporated   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary refinement; Centrifuge test; Consolidation; Desiccation; Finite difference; Neumann type boundary condition; Non linear partial differential equations; Soft soil; Time integration

Indexed keywords

SOFT SOILS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRAIN;

SOILS;

CONSOLIDATION; DESICCATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOFT SOIL;

EID: 0036468016     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.196     Document Type: Article

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