... improvement hydro-mechanical analysis numerical modelling steel slag In most numerical studies, geosynthetic encasement has been modelled using membrane (Khabbazian et al., 2010 ; Pulko et al., 2011 ; Yoo and Kim, 2009), beam (Engin et al., 2007 , 2008 ; Malarvizhi...

... numerical modelling strain monitoring National Natural Science Foundation of China 42225702 42461160266 Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent 2025ZB486 This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos 42225702...

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..., for this condition, a flexible face model performs similarly to a block face model. Figure 1 shows the geometry and the mesh of the numerical model. The vertical facing wall was constructed with a height of 11.7 m. The modular blocks of the facing were 0.2 m high and 0.3 m wide. The numerical model geometry also...

... to a larger radial distance, meaning that potential distortions due to differential settlements are smaller. Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 excavation ground movements numerical modelling shafts UN SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities a, b...

... − S r ) ( 1 1 + [ α ( u a − u w ) ] n ) ( n − 1 ) / n 09 04 2024 14 11 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 bearing capacity flux matric suction numerical modelling shear strength strip foundation...

... recourse to SSI. 12 06 2022 10 04 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 bridges earth pressure geotechnical engineering numerical modelling soil/structure interaction temperature-related & thermal effects Increasingly, there is more demand...

... formation and micro–macro parameters in the shearing region. Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 discrete-element modelling fabric of soils numerical modelling reverse fault rupture path shear band 15 05 2022 30 11 2022 In an earthquake, two major...

.... finite element method in situ testing numerical modelling site investigation stiffness UN SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities The shear wave velocity (V_{s) profile of soil is an important parameter in earthquake engineering. It is needed to study site characterisation, site}...

... between structural parameters and their influence on the opening ratio was also investigated. The distribution of soil under different opening ratios was analysed by using a full-scale mud-discharge numerical model. The results showed that, the larger the opening ratio (especially the opening ratio...

... Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 numerical modelling rock mechanics tunnels & tunnelling uncertainty, reliability & risk Soil and rock masses have a spatial variability in their strength and deformability parameters that must be taken into account. This is very important...

... province and the location of Choghart open-pit mine (modified from Sadeghi et al. (2018)) 25 03 2021 20 07 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 earthquakes numerical modelling pseudo-static analysis slopes static analysis three-dimensional...

... pressures horizontal piled-raft coefficient numerical modelling In a piled-raft foundation (PRF), the piles behave as settlement reducers and some portion of the load from the superstructure is supposed to be carried by the raft. PRFs are mainly used for large superstructures where it is necessary...

... et al., 2018 ; Ziotopoulou, 2018). Flac is a powerful geotechnical and geomechanics numerical modelling software based on the finite-difference method (FDM). Most of the constitutive models used in geotechnical engineering, including the Mohr–Coulomb, Hoek–Brown, modified Cam clay (MCC), soft...

... and a numerical model of stress wave propagation was established. The numerical model adopted the Riedel–Hiermater–Thoma (RHT) material model for the test parameters. The proposed segmented exponential models of hole wall pressure were applied to the lower, middle and upper parts of the blasthole...

... load condition; however, the settlement trough predicted by advanced numerical models shows good agreement with that obtained by monitoring data. Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2022 computational geotechnics ground movements Lyon metro line D mechanised shield tunnelling...

... the limit value of passive earth pressure was reached. As shown in Figure 1 , S_max is the wall movement and H is the height of the simulated wall. earth pressure numerical modelling retaining walls Determination of active and passive earth pressures along...

... loading tests are performed on the same pile. Both field and interior model tests thus have constraints in forecasting the bearing capacity of driven piles. Seepage and deformation of the surrounding soil during and after pile driving was studied using the numerical model. Effective stress analysis...

... 03 2021 17 01 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2022 dams laboratory tests numerical modelling rehabilitation The development of large cities in Iran has increased demands for electric power, drinking water and clean water for agricultural purposes...

... also compared with a set of finite-element numerical models and the efficiency of each method for the simulation of fault rupture–tunnel interaction was assessed for the first time. Both the DEM and the continuum numerical models were found to be effective complementary tools, capable of providing...