Soft Schemes for Earthquake-Geotechnical Dilemmas

Addressing the Geotechnical Challenges Posed by Soft Clays

Recent Developments in Computer Simulations and Visualization for Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Problems

This paper presents some recent developments in computer simulations and visualization for geotechnical earthquake engineering. In particular, presented are developments centered on soil–foundation–structure (SFS) interactions modeling using the finite element method. The soil–foundation–structure interaction is one of the most challenging problems in earthquake engineering. The computability o...

A Cognitive Look at Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Understanding the Multidimensionality of the Phenomena

Desktop GIS for Geotechnical Engineering

A desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Geotechnical Information Management system has recently been developed to assist geo-technical managers, planners through flexible application with all common desktop GIS functionalities and customized tools like Borehole Viewer and Stripchart to relate alignments and cross-sections to a specific location and/or region on the map, and create th...

Inference Schemes for M Best Solutions for Soft CSPs

The paper present a formalization of the m-best task within the unifying framework of semirings. As a consequence, known inference algorithms are defined and their correctness and completeness for the m-best task are immediately implied. We also describe and analyze a Bucket Elimination algorithm for solving the m-best task, elim-m-opt, presented in an earlier workshop and introduce an extensio...