Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: CEE 345 or equivalent. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Finite element method formulation, constitute laws for geotechnical materials including elastic-perfectly plastic and nonlinear elasto-plastic. Critical state framework for modeling soil behavior. Finite element program PLAXIS for performing static analyses of earth structures. Soil structure interaction. Finite difference method and discrete element method. Advanced soil models.