Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Geomechanics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 39002
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geotechnical earthquake engineering; dynamic characterization of soil; liquefaction; site response analysis; foundation; landslide
Interests: soil structure interaction; numerical modeling; earthquake engineering; tunnels; geotechnical innovative materials
Interests: soil behaviour; foundation; tunnel
Interests: geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil-foundation-structure interaction; experimental soil-foundation-structure interaction; performance based design; structural dynamics; numerical analysis; foundation design and analysis; seismic behavior and rehabilitation of historical buildings and monuments; soil dynamics; soil mechanics
Special Issue Information
In recent decades, numerical simulation has increasingly been used for the analysis of stress–strain levels in many fields of geotechnical engineering toward better accounting for the possible initial and boundary conditions associated with micro- to megascale problems, including groundwater flow, fully coupled soil–structure systems, and environmentally friendly innovative materials.
In addition to the developments related to the methods itself (new constitutive models for soil and rock, new numerical procedures, and calculation methods), the role of the numerical approach has evolved from the research field into a daily engineering tool due to the increase of computer power.
This Special Issue will collect contributions on recent research advances and/or well-documented applications of numerical modeling in static and dynamic geotechnical engineering.
Contributions regarding tunnels and deep excavations in urban areas, soil–structure interaction issues, cultural heritage protection, retaining walls, foundations, dams, slope stability, and innovative materials are welcome. Applications of numerical modeling to dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and constitutive models including of unsaturated soil and soil–structure interface are also welcome.
Finally, we encourage the submission of contributions concerning operative applications with the experimental validation of the models.
Dr. Valentina Lentini
Dr. Maria Rossella Massimino
Dr. Maurizio Ziccarelli
Dr. Dimitris Pitilakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- constitutive models
- numerical modeling
- soil–structure interaction
- earthquake engineering
- liquefaction
- slope stability
- foundation
- tunnels
- environmentally friendly innovative materials
- cultural heritage protection
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