We present the fundamental concepts of SPH with particular emphasis on its state-of-the-art
applications in geomechanics and geotechnical engineering. In the first part of the paper, we …

Shrink-swell movements of soils cause angular distortion to substructures leading to
significant damage to lightweight structures. The built environment of lightweight structures …

Kuttanad is a region that lies in the southwest part of Kerala, India, and possesses soft soil,
which imposes constraints on many civil engineering applications owing to low shear …

Modelling desiccation cracking in soils is a challenging process that requires a robust
computational approach capable of describing soils undergoing thermo-hydro-mechanical …

In this study, randomly distributed fiber reinforcement on the desiccation cracking behavior
of expansive clay was investigated. Modeling considerations for the desiccation cracking …

A new DEM-based approach is proposed to study the desiccation of slurry soils. Distinctly to
existing DEM approaches that only consider the solid phase, the proposed method explicitly …

Coral clay is one of the products of sorting sediments from the reclamation of coral islands.
To reveal the crack characteristics of coral clay (C) with different layer thickness and …

A new hybrid discrete–continuum numerical approach that explores the key advantages of
both discrete and continuum approaches is proposed to model unsaturated seepage flows …

Soil desiccation is a common physical phenomenon, which causes many geotechnical
problems to unsaturated clayey soils. In this paper, a proposed model was incorporated into …

Drying‐induced soil curling is commonly observed in nature. In order to investigate the
change of water distribution in soil caused by drying and curling, a series of drying tests is …