Evaluating the performance of an explicit dynamic relaxation technique in analyzing non-linear geotechnical engineering problems

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 125-131

  Dang, Hoang K ^a   Meguid, Mohamed A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Dynamic relaxation; Geotechnical engineering; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TIME STEP; BRICK ELEMENTS; COLLAPSE LOADS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; DYNAMIC RELAXATION; EXPLICIT DYNAMICS; KEY FEATURE; MOHR-COULOMB; NON-LINEAR; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SQUARE FOOTINGS; STATIC PROBLEMS; TIME STEP;

ALGORITHMS; BEARING CAPACITY; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENGINEERING; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELDS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BEARING CAPACITY; CALIBRATION; COLLAPSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LOADING; NUMERICAL MODEL; STIFFNESS;

EID: 70649101250     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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