This paper describes recent advances in stability analysis that combine the limit theorems of
classical plasticity with finite elements to give rigorous upper and lower bounds on the …

In geomechanics, limit analysis provides a useful method for assessing the capacity of
structures such as footings and retaining walls, and the stability of slopes and excavations …

In this paper, a thorough numerical study is conducted to rigorously evaluate the lateral
earth pressures exerted on the retaining walls backfilled with geosynthetic-reinforced soil …

This paper aims at analyzing the active and passive lateral earth pressures exerted on
retaining walls due to the anisotropic medium of dry and noncohesive backfill subjected to …

Despite a large number of studies on the active failure of trapdoors conducted in the
literature, there are very limited studies examining the combined influences of undrained …

In this study, the influence of transient flow on the active and passive lateral earth pressures
of variably saturated backfills is thoroughly evaluated employing the lower bound theorems …

An efficient procedure to compute strict upper and lower bounds for the exact collapse
multiplier in limit analysis is presented, with a formulation that explicitly considers the exact …

A new and potentially widely applicable numerical analysis procedure for continuum
mechanics problems is described. The procedure is used here to determine the critical …

This paper aims at studying the active and passive earth pressures on the retaining
structures having an unsaturated backfill. To this end, the well-established lower bound limit …

Soil is a cross anisotropic particulate medium with different strengths in various directions;
this is primarily due to its geological deposition process and the very fact that particles …