Abstract: A hydromechanical model with explicit fracture flow is presented for the fully coupled analysis of flow and deformation in fractured porous media. Extended finite-element method (XFEM) was utilized to model the fracture ...

Abstract: In this paper, a systematic study was carried out to computationally explore the significance of different mechanisms involved in hydraulic fracturing treatments in practice, with special reference given to the hydrofracture ...

Abstract: A hybrid element method is presented for the dynamic analysis of piles and pile groups embedded in exponentially graded transversely isotropic media. In this method, the piles are modeled using finite elements, while the ...

Abstract: Pitfalls in the common approaches to obtaining material parameters from soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs) are discussed, and the typical mistakes made in the literature are highlighted. Particular attention is given ...

Abstract: A viscoplastic model is presented for creep and strain rate behavior of soils with particular reference to capturing drained, undrained, primary, and tertiary creep. The model is formulated in the context of the bounding ...

Abstract: We explore an application of the Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) in conjunction with Airy stress functions and Fourier series to find optimal solutions to a few reference biharmonic problems of elasticity and ...