Static and dynamic behaviour of soils: a rational approach to quantitative solutions. I. Fully saturated problems

The behaviour of all geomaterials, and in particular of soils, is governed by their interaction with the pore fluid. The mechanical model of this interaction when combined with suitable constitutive description of the solid phase and with efficient, discrete, computation procedures, allows most transient and static problems involving deformations to be solved. This paper describes the basic procedures and the development of a general purpose computer program (SWANDYNE-X). -from Authors