Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Organisation | |
General Geotechnical Aspects | |
Finite element analysis for the safety evaluation of a dam on a fractured rock foundation | p. 3 |
A numerical study of a double cut and cover tunnel | p. 13 |
3-D modelling of bored tunnels | p. 23 |
Ten Years of Plaxis International | |
The history of Plaxis | p. 35 |
Present of Plaxis | p. 45 |
On the future of Plaxis | p. 55 |
Dams and Embankments | |
Finite element back analysis of loaded MSW vertical cut | p. 61 |
Bank stability considering sand boil and excess pore water pressure | p. 69 |
Back analysis of staged embankment failure: The case study Streefkerk | p. 79 |
Numerical modelling of highway embankments on extensive layers of soft soil | p. 91 |
Deformation analyses of Ajaure Dam in Sweden | p. 103 |
Tunnelling and Deep Excavations | |
Modelling tunnel behaviour for soft soil conditions: Models for structural analysis and monitoring results | p. 113 |
Numerical analysis of the excavation of a shallow tunnel in Neapolitan pyroclastic soil | p. 133 |
Monitoring and numerical analysis of tunnels in complex geological conditions | p. 143 |
Numerical analysis of ground deformation in tunnelling | p. 153 |
Queensberry House, London: A case study of the prediction and monitoring of settlements during the construction of a deep excavation | p. 163 |
An A-type prediction for a deep excavation near an existing navigable lock | p. 177 |
Analysis of extruded concrete lining tunnel by FEM | p. 185 |
Suburban and Infrastructural Works | |
Finite element method and multi-anchored walls for excavations in urban areas | p. 199 |
Finite element analysis of basement construction at the British museum | p. 207 |
Foundation design of cryogenic tanks in Taiwan: Settlement computation by classic geotechnical and by Plaxis FEM method compared to the measurements obtained during hydrotests | p. 217 |
Comparison study on analytical, centrifugal and numerical modelling of quasi-horizontal loaded suction piles | p. 227 |
Numerical modelling of tension piles | p. 237 |
Education and Research | |
A soft soil model that accounts for creep | p. 249 |
Performance of the 'hardening soil model' for a deep excavation problem | p. 263 |
Proposal for an anisotropic, soft clay model to be incorporated in future developments in Plaxis | p. 271 |
The hardening soil model: Formulation and verification | p. 281 |
Some remarks on implicit integration of modified cam-clay model | p. 297 |
An egg-shaped smooth yield function for non-linear analysis in geotechnics | p. 305 |
Author index | p. 311 |
Keyword index | p. 313 |
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