Applied Soil Mechanics with ABAQUS Applications





APPLIED SOIL

MECHANICS

with ABAQUS Applications

SAM HELWANY



PREFACE

The purpose of this book is to provide civil engineering students and practitioners

with simple basic knowledge on how to apply the finite element method to soil

mechanics problems. This is essentially a soil mechanics book that includes traditional

soil mechanics topics and applications. The book differs from traditional soil

mechanics books in that it provides a simple and more flexible alternative using

the finite element method to solve traditional soil mechanics problems that have

closed-form solutions. The book also shows how to apply the finite element method

to solve more complex geotechnical engineering problems of practical nature that

do not have closed-form solutions.

In short, the book is written mainly for undergraduate students, to encourage

them to solve geotechnical engineering problems using both traditional engineering

solutions and the more versatile finite element solutions. This approach not only

teaches the concepts but also provides means to gain more insight into geotechnical

engineering applications that reinforce the concepts in a very profound manner.

The concepts are presented in a basic form so that the book can serve as a valuable

learning aid for students with no background in soil mechanics. The main prerequisite

would be strength of materials (or equivalent), which is a prerequisite for

soil mechanics in most universities.

General soil mechanics principles are presented for each topic, followed by traditional

applications of these principles with longhand solutions, which are followed

in turn by finite element solutions for the same applications, and then both solutions

are compared. Further, more complex applications are presented and solved using

the finite element method.


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