NUMERICAL ANALYSIS IN GEOTECHNICS AND FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

1. FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD 2. FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - ELASTICITY AND PLASTICITY - STIFFNESS OF SOIL (TRIAXIAL AND OEDOMETER) - MATERIAL SOIL MODEL - APPLICATION IN SOFTWARE PLAXIS

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

BEFORE THE ERA OF FEM, FD METHOD WAS PERHAPS THE MAIN NUMERICAL TECHNIQUE EMPLOYED IN GT. ENG. ALTHOUGH THE FEM POSSESES CERTAIN ADVANTAGEOUS OVER FD, THE LATTER CAN BE MORE SUITABLE FOR CERTAIN PROBLEMS. MOST NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES ARE BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF DISCRETIZATION,

IN FD, THE BASIC GOVERNING EQUATION IS DISCRETIZED

IN FEM THE PHYSICAL BODY IS DISCRETIZED

du/dx = Limx 0 u/x ~ u/x

U(x)

Slope du/dx

2 u

1
u/x

u1
x

u2

Fig. 1.2 Finite difference approximation of first derivative

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SOLUTION TO FD
1. IMPLICIT SOLUTION BY SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION

2. EXPLICIT SOLUTION (NO NEED SIMULTANEOUS EQ. APPROACHED BY ADD. DISCRETIZED VARIABLE IN THE GOVERNING EQUATION)

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Stressstrain curve

Linear elastic

Elastic perfectly plastic