Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering: Recent Developments

Proceedings of sessions of Geo-Denver 2000, held in Denver, Colorado, August 5-8, 2000. Sponsored by the Geo-Institute of ASCE.

This Geotechnical Special Publication contains eight papers that describe ways in which advanced numerical methods can be applied to geotechnical engineering.

Topics include:

• applications of artificial neural networks for characterizing the stress-strain behavior of soil;
• comparisons between discrete element modeling and laboratory data from shear box tests;
• numerical analyses of lateral earth support problems, including retaining walls, slurry walls, and a soil-nailed slope;
• methods for and results of advanced numerical modeling of footings on granular soils; and
• the spectral stochastic finite element method to analyze multiphase flow in a random porous medium.