Computational Geomechanics with Special Reference to Earthquake Engineering

Though most predictions and engineering calculations are traditionally based on total stress approaches, realistic prediction of the behavior of soil masses can only be achieved when the model considers the interaction of the soil skeleton and the pore fluid. This book presents in a single volume the fundamentals of this computational approach, applied to earthquake engineering. The computational approach avoids erroneous predictions, and is to be used by engineers for earthquake response analysis.

Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, CBE, FREng, FRS was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since his first paper in 1947 dealing with numerical approximation to the stress analysis of dams, he published nearly 600 papers and wrote or edited more than 25 books.