The objective of this work is to describe the design and implementation of a framework for
building multi-disciplinary finite element programs. The main goals are generality …

Artificial ground freezing is an environmentally friendly technique to provide temporary
excavation support and groundwater control during tunnel construction under difficult …

Artificial ground freezing (AGF) is a commonly used technique in geotechnical engineering
for ground improvement such as ground water control and temporary excavation support …

Large infrastructure projects involving the construction of tunnels in urban areas constitute
complex, integrated and multi-disciplinary systems, which require building and construction …

Computational multiscale analyses are currently ubiquitous in science and technology.
Different problems of interest—eg, mechanical, fluid, thermal, or electromagnetic—involving …

In this work a conceptual theory of neural networks (NNs) from the perspective of functional
analysis and variational calculus is presented. Within this formulation, the learning problem …

With the increasing demand for underground transport infrastructures in urban areas, and
associated hazards during the construction of these complex structures characterized with a …

In geotechnical applications of artificial ground freezing, safe design and execution require a
reliable prediction of the coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of soils subjected to …

High-order piecewise polynomial shape functions for quadrilateral finite elements are
proposed. The shape functions are tensor products of one-dimensional piecewise functions …

The paper addresses various scale-bridging modeling and discretization strategies for
multiphase porous materials, starting with a micromechanics model for ion transport within …