Water pressure and excavation simulation with the numerical manifold method

Water pressure is an active factor affecting the security of geotechnical engineering.Excavation is common load in rock and soil engineering.As a new developed numerical method,the simulation of water pressure and excavation with Numerical Manifold Method(NMM) is seldom examined.We give the equations to compute the effects of three different types of water pressure acting on joints.Simulation of excavation by removing the blocks and elements in the region to be excavated is easy to describe and ...