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This letter represents an initiative started by a number of researchers signed below who are working in the field of numerical modelling of soil mechanics problems. We belive [...]
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The interest of a consulting company in designing stepped spillways in roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams led us to propose the possibility of building this type of spillway [...]
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When using finite-volume methods and the conservative form of the Saint Venant equations in one-dimensional flow computations, it is important to establish the correct balance [...]
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Se presenta el estudio desarrollado en el Laboratorio de Modelos Reducidos del Dpto. de Ing. Hidráulica, Marítima y Ambiental de la UPC, para el análisis [...]
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Global warming and climate changes have been one of the many causes that triggered numerous catastrophic landslide and mudflow disasters in the past twenty years. The increase [...]
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Within the past two decades, mass movements hazards involving fast and large soil deformation have increased significantly in frequency and magnitude due to their strong relation [...]
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The virtual calibration chamber technique, based on the discrete element method, is here applied to study the standard penetration test (SPT). A macro-element approach is [...]
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Argillaceous rocks and expansive clays play a key role in many scenarios of the deep geological disposal of nuclear waste.
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Granular materials reach critical states upon shearing. The position and shape of a critical state line (CSL) in the compression plane are important for constitutive models, [...]
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The paper explores the application of conventional (DMT) and seismic (SDMT) dilatometer tests to an important case of deep excavation design. The work presents finite-element [...]
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The net stress plus suction and the average skeleton stress plus modified suction are two alternative sets of energetically consistent stress variables for modelling the hydro-mechanical [...]