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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 26
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper IX.3

Numerical Analysis of Plate-Soil Interaction

J. Batista de Paiva* and R. Butterfield#

*Sao Carlos Civil Engineering School, Structures Department, Sao Carlos, SP-Brasil
#Civil Engineering Department, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J. Batista de Paiva, R. Butterfield, "Numerical Analysis of Plate-Soil Interaction", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Advances in Computational Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 275-281, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.26.9.3
Abstract
This paper presents a Boundary Element Method formulation to analyze plate-soil interactions problems. The subgrade reaction is assumed to vary linearly into triangular surface elements and the integral in the domain of these elements are transformed into integral over its boundaries avoiding the singularity in r-1 of the fundamental solution of the soil.

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