Micro-mechanical simulation of geotechnical problems using massively parallel computers

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1227-1234

  Washington, David W ^a   Meegoda, Jay N ^b  

^a Engineering Technology   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete element models; Geotechnical problems; Granular material; Massively parallel machines; Micro mechanics; Simulations; Super computers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GEOTECHNICAL PROBLEMS; MICROMECHANICAL SIMULATIONS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; MICROMECHANICS; PARALLEL COMPUTING;

EID: 0346243680     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.317     Document Type: Article

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