Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Model for Geotechnical Applications.

The paper deals with the coupled hydro-mechanical model for clayey soils capable for the description of slope stability or bearing capacity of the footing problems in geotechnics. The model is composed from simplified model for saturated-unsaturated water flow in deforming porous medium and plasticity model based on the Cam-Clay yield criterion. The set of partial differential equations is discretized in space with the help of finite element method. The model was implemented to the SIFEL software package and some numerical example of the footing problem is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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