Multi-region boundary element analysis of unconfined seepage problems in excavations

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 75-96

  Wu, Chih Ping ^a   Lin, Chih Hsien ^a   Chiou, Yaw Jeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EXCAVATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERFORMANCE; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOILS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL FORMULATION; DARCY'S LAW; GALERKIN SCHEME; SEEPAGE ANALYSIS;

SEEPAGE;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; EXCAVATION; SEEPAGE;

EID: 0042125020     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-352X(95)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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