Unsaturated soils: From constitutive modelling to numerical algorithms

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 810-824

  Sheng, Daichao ^a   Gens, Antonio ^b   Fredlund, Delwyn G ^c   Sloan, Scott W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constitutive modelling; Numerical algorithms; Unsaturated soils

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; STRESSES; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY VALUES; CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING; ELASTO-PLASTIC; FINITE ELEMENT; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOUR; HYDRO-MECHANICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; SATURATED SOILS; SOIL-WATER CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONS; UNSATURATED SOIL; UNSATURATED SOILS; VOLUMETRIC BEHAVIOUR;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 53749091902     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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