| Preface | |
| A constitutive model for poroelastic damage in porous brittle materials | p. 3 |
| Unsaturated soil modelling with special emphasis on undrained conditions | p. 9 |
| An elastoplastic-viscoplastic model for soils | p. 15 |
| Modeling of anisotropic elastoplastic damage in shale rocks | p. 21 |
| On rate-sensitive behaviour of anisotropic soils | p. 27 |
| Anisotropic hardening model for normally consolidated soft clays | p. 33 |
| A consistent framework with embedded microstructural considerations for stress-dilatancy behaviour of sands | p. 41 |
| On a simple critical state model for sand | p. 47 |
| Hypoplastic description of the interface behaviour | p. 53 |
| Micromechanical investigation of the visco-plastic behaviour of granular materials | p. 59 |
| Numerical identification of anisotropic rock parameters using uniaxial compression test | p. 65 |
| A generic stress surface introduced in the customised octahedral plane | p. 71 |
| On mechanical and thermal nano-behaviour of a clay mineral | p. 77 |
| Plane strain instabilities in soil: Application to slopes stability | p. 85 |
| Effects of shear banding on three-dimensional failure conditions for soils | p. 91 |
| Adaptive mesh modelling of localization in a cohesion-softening soil | p. 97 |
| Embedded discontinuity approaches for shear band analysis | p. 103 |
| On the necessity of stochastic material descriptions in the computational analysis of soils | p. 109 |
| Capturing shear band propagation caused by tunnel excavation using an anisotropic softening model for tensile and frictional failure | p. 115 |
| Effect of initial anisotropy on shear banding in granular materials | p. 121 |
| Shearing of a narrow granular layer with polar quantities | p. 127 |
| Numerical study of polar effects in shear zones | p. 133 |
| Finite element algorithm for non-symmetric problems | p. 141 |
| Parallel finite element analysis | p. 147 |
| Numerical wave dispersion considering linear and higher order finite elements | p. 153 |
| Time-integration of a viscous constitutive equation in finite element modelling by using super-stable Rosenbrock methods | p. 159 |
| A new approach for inverse analysis | p. 165 |
| Taylor expansion-based integration of a thermoviscoplastic constitutive law | p. 171 |
| Implicit integration scheme for CJS model | p. 177 |
| Robust modeling of cyclic soil behaviour using a subloading model | p. 183 |
| Performance of different stress-point algorithms for the integration of hypoplastic constitutive equations for geomaterials | p. 189 |
| A finite element method for local second gradient model using Lagrange multipliers | p. 195 |
| Load stepping schemes and unbalanced force norms in geotechnical analysis | p. 201 |
| Use of iterative methods for the solution of three-dimensional soil-structure interaction problems | p. 209 |
| Limit analysis in geotechnics using the finite element method and mathematical programming | p. 215 |
| Some remarks on application of response surface method in reliability computations | p. 221 |
| An analysis of the stress fields induced by mining with application of parallel high performance computing | p. 229 |
| Application of a coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model for unsaturated soil | p. 237 |
| Numerical model of miscible grout propagation in deformable saturated porous media | p. 243 |
| Transient BIE and fundamental solutions of dynamic poroelasticity | p. 249 |
| A note on modelling of coupled flow-deformation in unsaturated soils | p. 255 |
| Induced damage modelling of unsaturated drying deformable materials | p. 263 |
| Thermal simulation of low energy pipeline located in cold climates | p. 269 |
| BEM analysis of seismic wave amplification in Caracas | p. 275 |
| Plasticity-induced coupling effects on the overall soil behaviour | p. 281 |
| Seismic analysis of piles and pile groups in liquefiable sand | p. 287 |
| Reinforced slopes subjected to seismic loads | p. 293 |
| Critical response of a granular railway track under high train velocities | p. 297 |
| THM and reactive transport coupling in unsaturated porous media | p. 303 |
| Three-dimensional FE analysis to determine the settlements due to the combined excavation of a ventilation shaft and a cut-and-cover tunnel in Boston | p. 311 |
| Longitudinal bending moments in the tube of a bored tunnel | p. 317 |
| Memory-efficient 3D FE-analysis in geomechanics using a planewise model | p. 323 |
| Numerical modelling of tunnel installation procedures | p. 329 |
| On the impact of the soil model in the numerical analysis of tunnelling | p. 335 |
| Numerical modelling to tunnel excavation in soils using the Multilaminate Model | p. 341 |
| The buckling failure of tunnels induced by high horizontal stress in jointed rocks | p. 347 |
| Visualisation of simulation results for geotechnical problems | p. 353 |
| Design of the Bolu Tunnels - Numerical analysis of tunnels in highly squeezing ground | p. 359 |
| Strategy for dimensioning shallow NATM-tunnels | p. 367 |
| Direct estimation of initial stresses of the ground around a tunnel | p. 373 |
| Sensitivity study of a thermo-mechanical creep model in underground repositories | p. 379 |
| Three-dimensional modeling of the planned Wellenberg repository site in Switzerland | p. 385 |
| Predictions of hydro-mechanical disturbances around tunnels based on different constitutive models | p. 391 |
| Three-dimensional analysis of the interaction between tunneling and pile foundations | p. 397 |
| Prediction of ground movements and damage to adjacent structures due to tunneling using an expert system | p. 403 |
| Micromechanical back-analysis of laboratory tests on rock | p. 411 |
| Finite element analyses of model piles in calibration chamber | p. 419 |
| Elasto-plastic modelling of bucket foundations | p. 425 |
| Elasto-plastic liquefaction analysis of offshore foundations | p. 431 |
| Modelling of pile foundations subjected to cyclic lateral loading | p. 437 |
| Load settlement behavior of large diameter bored piles in over-consolidated clay | p. 443 |
| Numerical simulation and model tests of reinforced foundation under uplift loading | p. 451 |
| Identification of modulus of subgrade reaction for a pile foundation | p. 457 |
| Advanced bearing capacity computation of a footing on sand using a kinematic hardening clastoplastic model | p. 463 |
| Numerical analysis of the influence of build-up of pore-pressure on the behaviour of micropiles subjected to lateral loading | p. 469 |
| Numerical and experimental investigation of suction anchor design aspects | p. 475 |
| Three dimensional stability analysis of plate anchors in clay | p. 481 |
| Drag anchor fluke-soil interaction in clays | p. 489 |
| Analyses and large scale testing of plate anchors | p. 495 |
| Plate-penetrometer penetration into NC soil using H-adaptive FE method | p. 501 |
| On the bearing capacity and the serviceability of piled rafts | p. 507 |
| Initial stress state and numerical modelling: Application to foundations on a slope | p. 515 |
| Pore pressures for stability analysis of embankment on soft clay | p. 521 |
| Collapse due to static liquefaction analyzed using large deformation elasto-visco-plastic dynamics | p. 527 |
| Inverse grading in granular flows | p. 535 |
| 3D FE-analysis of the stability of slope reinforced with piles | p. 541 |
| Three-dimensional finite element analysis of slope stability, geometric and parametric studies | p. 547 |
| On the use of the F.E. M. for assessing the stability of cuts and fills | p. 553 |
| In situ measurement of lateral pressure in a landslide and its use in numerical modelling | p. 561 |
| Modelling of consolidation in soft soils | p. 569 |
| Calculation of soil displacements due to retaining wall construction | p. 573 |
| Application of an anisotropic hardening model for undrained response of saturated clay | p. 581 |
| On rehabilitation of hydraulic structures subjected to alkali-aggregate reaction | p. 589 |
| Ice-induced loads on hydraulic structures | p. 595 |
| Numerical modelling of the injections of cement mixes in granular soils | p. 601 |
| Dynamic analysis of rockfall restraining structures | p. 609 |
| Modelling biodegradation and hydraulic effects in waste refuse | p. 615 |
| A study on soil compaction due to agricultural traffic: Computational results and field data | p. 621 |
| Numerical modelling of the compaction behaviour of crushed rock salt | p. 627 |
| Modeling the stress fields in a Frustum Confining Vessel | p. 633 |
| Lower bound limit analysis of unreinforced masonry shear walls | p. 639 |
| Finite element analysis of pressuremeter tests using critical state soil models | p. 645 |
| Influence of the form of the plastic potential on the evaluation of ground subsidence | p. 651 |
| On the use of neuronets for simulating the stress-strain behavior of soils | p. 657 |
| Elasto-plastic analysis of composite material using a macro level yield function | p. 663 |
| Numerical modeling on the deformation in railway foundation - A case study | p. 669 |
| Author index | p. 675 |
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