Continuum Damage Mechanics in Geotechnical Engineering

采矿和石油勘探是澳大利亚的主要行业之一，必须解决岩土工程问题，其中损害的增长起着核心作用。例如，由于海底土壤的累积损伤，海上平台在循环环境载荷下可能发生故障。因此，需要设计工具，将连续损伤力学建模的地质材料的反应。该项目将通过开发严格而简单的数值模型，使澳大利亚在这一领域处于领先地位，从而为矿产资源行业提供安全而经济的岩土工程解决方案。

Mining and oil exploration are amongst the major industries in Australia and must address geotechnical problems in which growth in damage plays a central role. For example, failure of an offshore platform can occur under cyclic environmental loading, due to accumulated damage to the seabed soils. Design tools are therefore needed that incorporate continuum damage mechanics in modelling the response of geomaterials. The project will place Australia at the forefront in this field through the development of rigorous yet simple numerical models that achieve this, and thus underpin safe but economic geotechnical engineering solutions in the mineral resource industries.