Computational Methods For Geotechnical Design – Politecnico di Torino

• Specific reading material together with the slides used will be made available to students during lectures and on the Portale della Didattica. Additional useful reading material (all available at the Politecnico di Torino libraries) are:

Argomenti del programma: Lectures will cover topics within: • the Finite Element Method (7,5 h) • constitutive modeling of geomaterials (3 h) • other computational methods of interest in Geomechanics, e.g. BEM, DEM, FDEM (6 h) • modelling methodology (9 h) • engineering problems solved by different numerical methods, e.g.