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SUMMARY:Development and application of Finite Element Analysis in Geotechn
 ical Earthquake Engineering - Dr  Stavroula  Kontoe\, Department of Civil 
 and Environmental Engineering\, Imperial College\, London
DTSTART:20130124T160000Z
DTEND:20130124T175000Z
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CONTACT:Anama Lowday
DESCRIPTION:The Finite Element (FE) analysis of geotechnical structures su
 bjected to seismic loading is essentially a problem of modelling wave prop
 agation. Therefore\, it requires careful consideration of the spatial disc
 retization and the boundary conditions of the computational domain as well
  as of the time-marching solution algorithm. In addition\, in a similar fa
 shion to static FE analysis\, the accuracy of the numerical predictions de
 pends largely on the employed constitutive relationship\, describing the s
 oils’ behaviour. The first part of the seminar will summarise recent dev
 elopments in terms of dynamic boundary conditions and spatial discretizati
 on techniques\, demonstrating their impact on the numerical predictions. T
 he second part of the seminar will focus on the effects of the choice of t
 he constitutive model on the numerical predictions. Constitutive models of
  varying sophistication (ranging from equivalent linear to kinematic harde
 ning models) will be used for the analysis of a tunnel and a complex retai
 ning system\, highlighting the relative merits of the considered approache
 s. 
LOCATION:Engineering Department - Lecture Room 4
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