Modeling in geomechanics / [edited by] Musharraf Zaman, Giancarlo Gioda, John Booker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- 1. Boundary element and coupled methods in geomechanics -- 2. Computational strategies for standard soil plasticity models -- 3. An asynchronous parallel algorithm for consolidation problems -- 4. Estimation of material parameters with discontinuities for elliptic models -- 5. Constitutive and numerical modeling of liquefaction -- 6. Viscoplasticity of geomaterials -- 7. Gradient and Cosserat models: theory and computation -- 8. Micromechanics of granular materials as structured media -- 9. Constitutive modeling for fluid-saturated porous solid by the asymptotic homogenization method -- 10. Unified disturbed state concept and HiSS plasticity models -- 11. Laboratory testing for the validation of constitutive models