ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how to incorporate the DSSM model into finite element analysis (FEA). It shows how to incorporate DSSM into an FEA program and use it to analyze a well-defined problem. Results matched the empirical data for the problem in terms of overall stress-strain behavior and shed light on how displacements and loads may vary within the sample. A milestone in FEA development was the publication in 1960 of its use in determining stress-strain distributions in continuous plane-strain concrete structures. In short, though theoretically it may be possible to falsify or fully confirm the result of FEA analyses predictions, in practice it usually isn't possible to do this even for simple problems, i.e., applications of FEA to soil problems currently does not qualify as "science." Central to the FEA of geotechnical problems involving stresses are the force equilibrium equations for the nodes that make up the finite element mesh.
