Computer methods and recent advances in geomechanics / Компьютерные методы и последние достижения в области геомеханики

Proceedings of the 14th international conference of international association for computer methods and recent advances in geomechanics, Kyoto, Japan, 22–25 september 2014

Over the last half a century, constitutive models for geomaterials and numerical analysis methods have been well developed. Nowadays, numerical methods play a very important role in Geotechnical Engineering. The first pioneering conference was held at Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA in 1972 under the leadership of Prof. C.S. Desai. Then, subsequent conferences were held in Blacksburg (USA) – 1976, Aachen (Germany) – 1979, Edmonton (Canada) – 1982, Nagoya (Japan) – 1985, Innsbruck (Austria) – 1988, Cairns (Australia) – 1991, Morgantown (USA) – 1994, Wuhan (China) – 1997, Tucson (USA) – 2001, Torino (Italy) – 2005, and Goa (India) – 2008. Now the conference is organized by IACMAG every three years. The last one, the 13th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, was held in Melbourne, Australia in 2011. The 14th conference, here in Kyoto, was accepted at the Melbourne conference in 2011. This conference series is the main activity of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics founded in 70’s by Prof. C.S. Desai of the University of Arizona; the present president of IACMAG is Prof. J. Carter of the University of Newcastle. <...>