Abstract: This paper presents a study on the consequences of combining energy conservative or non-conservative elasticity within a plasticity framework. Toward this end, a versatile energy potential function is first presented and ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical investigation of the effect of foundation size on the response of shallow circular foundations on siliceous and calcareous sands. The study is based on the predictive capabilities of the ...

Abstract: The engineering design of shallow foundations on sand is almost universally based on one of the variants of the classical bearing capacity formula. However, this formula is suitable only where the sand exhibits dilative ...

Abstract: The response of piles subjected to lateral loading (along a single line of action) has been substantially investigated in the past. However, little attention has been devoted to studying how a change in the lateral load ...