ABSTRACT
Rocks and soils can behave as discontinuous materials, both physically and mechanically, and for such discontinuous nature and behaviour there remain challenges in numerical modelling methods and techniques. Some of the main discontinuum based numerical methods, for example the distinct element method (DEM) and the discontinuous deformation analysi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Keynotes
chapter |14 pages
Recent developments and future trends in distinct element methods— UDEC/3DEC and PFC codes
José V. Lemos
chapter |12 pages
Application of DDA and NMM to practical problems in recent new insight
Y. Ohnishi & T. Koyama T. Sasaki & I. Hagiwara
chapter |12 pages
Complete and high order polynomial displacement approximation and its application to elastic mechanics analysis based on DDA
A.Q. Wu Y. Zhang
part |2 pages
Discontinuous deformation analysis method and applications
chapter |8 pages
DDA simulations for slope failure/collapse experiment caused by torrential rainfall
T. Koyama, K. Irie, K. Nagano & S. Nishiyama N. Sakai
chapter |6 pages
A numerical study of the significance of joint roughness in discontinuum modelling
A. Mortazavi & A. Bonakdar
chapter |8 pages
Studies on rock fall problems by three dimensional discontinuous deformation analysis
T. Sasaki & I. Hagiwara S. Miki
chapter |6 pages
Development of graphic user interface for Discontinues Deformation Analysis (DDA)
G.F. Zhao & N. Khalili X.B. Zhao
part |2 pages
Key block theory, block cutting and applications