Optimization Based Finite Element Procedures for Geotechnical Applications

虽然这个项目主要是一个基础研究，预计将导致一类新的方法，准确和有效的建模复杂的岩土工程应用。最终，这将导致标准和非标准岩土结构的更便宜和更安全的设计。该项目建立在过去15-20年来在澳大利亚建立的将数学规划方法应用于地质力学问题的传统的基础上，并将其扩展。这项工作得到了全世界的认可，纽卡斯尔开发的数值方法目前正在商业化，以造福于执业工程师和岩土工程研究人员。

Although this project is predominantly a fundamental study it is expected to lead to a class of new methods for accurate and efficient modelling of complex geotechnical applications. Ultimately, this will result in cheaper and safer designs of both standard and non-standard geotechnical structures. The project builds on and extends the tradition which has been established in Australia over the past 15-20 years of applying mathematical programming methods to geomechanical problems. This work has received world wide recognition and the numerical methods developed in Newcastle are currently being commercialized for the benefit of practising engineers and geotechnical researchers.