PART II. SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS—THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
MODELING OF GEOMATERIALS BEHAVIOR
2010 年 50 巻 6 号 p. 861-875
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2010 年 50 巻 6 号 p. 861-875
The review of 50 years of papers published in Soils and Foundations demonstrates that significant effort has been made by many researchers to develop soil models. The contributions of Soils and Foundations in the area of soil modeling are subdivided into two topics: (a) “macro”-mechanics and (b) “micro”-mechanics. The attention to macro-mechanics is focused on continuum-based models, whereas that to micro-mechanics is focused on discrete based models. Soils are examples of complex systems, made up of basic units that interact to generate an emergent response that is more complex than the response of the units themselves. Despite the challenges posed by the complexity of the systems, our understanding of the link between the particles, their interactions and the overall “macro-scale” soil response has significantly been improved over the life of Soils and Foundations. In this review of contributions to soil modeling, many examples of macro-scale soil models developed with a real consideration of the mechanical response of the individual particles were found.
