Abstract: Biot's symmetric indefinite linear systems of equations are commonly encountered in finite-element computations of geotechnical problems. The development of efficient solution methods for Biot's linear systems of equations ...

Abstract: Finite-element analysis of many soil-structure interaction problems involves material zones of widely differing stiffnesses. The large relative differences in material stiffnesses usually result in an ill-conditioned system ...

Abstract: Static and seismic passive earth pressure coefficients for the general case of an inclined wall and a sloping cohesionless backfill were computed by using finite-element lower-bound limit analysis based on second-order ...

Abstract: In this paper, the formulation of a lower-bound limit analysis for axisymmetric problems by means of finite elements leads to an optimization problem with a large number of variables and constraints. For the Mohr-Coulomb ...