Abstract: To simulate the onset and growth of strong discontinuities (cracks or slip planes) and the failure mechanism in soil slopes with reasonable accuracy, a program was developed based on the existing extended finite-element ...

Abstract: Cracks are one of the major characteristics of soil structure failure. Successfully performed numerical simulation of the soil crack evolution process is conducive to the prediction of potential dangers. In recent years, ...

Abstract: Cracks are the visual manifestation of soil failure. Exploring the propagation process of soil cracks is of great significance to the safety of geotechnical engineering. However, this part of the work is limited by the ...