Soil structure revolution

摘要

A new numerical analysis procedure which dramatically speeds up and simplifies the process of assessing the safety of foundations, retaining walls and a wide range of other soil-structure interaction problems has recently been developed. The new Discontinuity Layout Optimization (DLO) procedure can be used to identify clearly the form of the critical failure mechanism for problems of arbitrary geometry, helping the user to quickly gain an improved understanding of the likely mode of response (e.g. Fig 1).