following the recent work of the authors in development and numerical verification of a new kinematic approach of the limit analysis for surface footings on non-associative materials, a practical procedure is proposed to utilize the theory. it is known that both the peak friction angle and dilation angle depend on the sand density as well as the stress level, which was not the concern of the fo...

stability of foundations near slopes is one of the important and complicated problems in geotechnical engineering, which has been investigated by various methods such as limit equilibrium, limit analysis, slip-line, finite element and discrete element. the complexity of this problem is resulted from the combination of two probable failures: foundation failure and overall slope failure. the curr...

L. A Souza, F. F. Bellotti, T. Frederico, M. T. Yamashita, and L. Tomio Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, DCTA, 12228-900, São José dos Campos, Brazil Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Instituto de Fomento e Coordenação Industrial, 12228-901, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil Instituto de F́ısica Teórica, UNESP Univ Estadual Paulista, C.P. 70532-...

presented is a method of two-dimensional analysis of the active earth pressure due to simultaneous effect of both soil weight and surcharge of strip foundation. the study’s aim is to provide a rigorous solution to the problem in the framework of upper-bound theorem of limit analysis method in order to produce some design charts for calculating the lateral active earth pressure of backfill when ...

 This paper is concerned with numerical simulation of plastic modes of tubular structures. The simulation incorporates with finite element limit analysis based on the upper bound method and the minimization technique. The analysis considers sequential deformation of structures with work-hardening effects. The simulation results demonstrate plastic buckling is one of the collapse modes and occu...

Dispersion curves to a oscillatory reaction-diffusion system with the selfconsistent flow have obtained by means of numerical calculations. The flow modulates the shape of dispersion curves and characteristics of traveling waves. The point of inflection which separates the dispersion curves into two branches corresponding to trigger and phase waves, moves according to the value of the advection...