Computational Geomechanics

Recent years have witnessed the development of computational geomechanics as an important branch of engineering. The use of modern computational techniques makes it possible to deal with many complex engineering problems, taking into account many of the typical properties of geotechnical materials (soil and rock), such as the coupled behaviour of pore water and solid material, nonlinear elasto-plastic behaviour, and transport processes. This book provides an introduction to these methods, presenting the basic principles of the geotechnical phenomena involved as well as the numerical models for their analysis, and including full listings of computer programs (in PASCAL). The types of geotechnical problems considered cover a wide range of applications, varying from classical problems such as slope stability, analysis of foundation piles and sheet pile walls to finite element analysis of groundwater flow, elasto-plastic deformations, consolidation and transport problems.

Autorentext

Prof. Arnold Verruijt is Emeritus Professor of Soil Mechanics at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in 1964 and 1969 from this university. He stayed with the university until he retired in 2002, interrupted by Visitor Professorships at Ontario (Canada), Haifa (Israel) and Sydney (Australia). He has published many papers and several books on groundwater flow and soil mechanics, usually with an emphasis on theoretical solutions of engineering problems. His main research interests are the development of analytical and numerical solution methods, such as the complex variable method and the finite element method. Prof. Verruijt is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (KNAW) and an honorable member of the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI). In 1997, he was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Beatrix. At Delft University of Technology he was known as an excellent teacher, for which he received the (first) Master Prize of the Delft University Foundation. In 2014, he received the Biot medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his pioneering contributions to the theory of poroelasticity. He also acted as consultant on engineering projects, such as tunnels, river embankments and storm surge barriers, mainly in the Netherlands but also abroad.

Inhalt
1 Soil Properties.- 2 Theory of Consolidation.- 3 Sea Bed Response to Cyclic Loads.- 4 Beams on Elastic Foundation.- 5 Sheet Pile Walls.- 6 Axially Loaded Piles.- 7 Development of Pile Plug.- 8 Laterally Loaded Piles.- 9 Pile in Layered Elastic Material.- 10 Waves in Piles.- 11 Gravity Foundations.- 12 Slope Stability.- 13 Finite Elements for Plane Groundwater Flow.- 14 Finite Elements for Plane Strain Elastostatics.- 15 Finite Elements for Elasto-Plastic Deformations.- 16 Finite Elements for One-dimensional Consolidation.- 17 Finite Elements for Two-dimensional Consolidation.- 18 Transport in Porous Media.- 19 Adsorption and Dispersion.- Appendix A. Integral Transforms.- Appendix B. Solution of Linear Equations.- References.