Journal of Applied Mathematics Mathematical and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering Guest Editors: Ga Zhang, Pengcheng Fu, and Fayun Liang Mathematical and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering Journal of Applied Mathematics Mathematical and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering Guest Editors: Ga Zhang, Pengcheng Fu, and Fayun Liang Copyright©2013HindawiPublishingCorporation.Allrightsreserved. Thisisaspecialissuepublishedin“JournalofAppliedMathematics.”AllarticlesareopenaccessarticlesdistributedundertheCreative CommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginal workisproperlycited. 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JunjieWei,China MaurizioPorfiri,USA YuriN.Sotskov,Belarus LiWeili,China MarioPrimicerio,Italy PeterJ.C.Spreij,TheNetherlands MartinWeiser,Germany MortezaRafei,TheNetherlands NiclasStro¨mberg,Sweden FrankWerner,Germany RobertoReno`,Italy RayKLSu,HongKong ShanheWu,China JacekRokicki,Poland JitaoSun,China DongmeiXiao,China DirkRoose,Belgium WenyuSun,China GongnanXie,China CarlaRoque,Portugal XianHuaTang,China YueshengXu,USA DebasishRoy,India AlexanderTimokha,Norway Suh-YuhYang,Taiwan SamirH.Saker,Egypt MarianoTorrisi,Italy BoYu,China MarceloA.Savi,Brazil Jung-FaTsai,Taiwan JinyunYuan,Brazil WolfgangSchmidt,Germany ChTsitouras,Greece AlejandroZarzo,Spain EckartSchnack,Germany KuppalapalleVajravelu,USA GuishengZhai,Japan MehmetSezer,Turkey AlvaroValencia,Chile JianmingZhan,China NaseerShahzad,SaudiArabia ErikVanVleck,USA ZhihuaZhang,China FatemehShakeri,Iran EzioVenturino,Italy JingxinZhang,Australia JianHuaShen,China JesusVigo-Aguiar,Spain ShanZhao,USA Hui-ShenShen,China MichaelN.Vrahatis,Greece ChongbinZhao,Australia FernandoSimo˜es,Portugal BaolinWang,China RenatZhdanov,USA TheodoreE.Simos,Greece MingxinWang,China HongpingZhu,China Contents MathematicalandNumericalModelinginGeotechnicalEngineering,GaZhang,PengchengFu, andFayunLiang Volume2013,ArticleID123485,1page ApplicationofTaguchiMethodandGeneticAlgorithmforCalibrationofSoilConstitutiveModels, M.Yazdani,A.Daryabari,A.Farshi,andS.Talatahari Volume2013,ArticleID258721,11pages SteeringParametersforRockGrouting,GunnarGustafson,JohanClaesson,andA˚saFransson Volume2013,ArticleID269594,9pages StrengthTheoryModelofUnsaturatedSoilswithSuctionStressConcept,PanChen,ChangfuWei, JieLiu,andTiantianMa Volume2013,ArticleID756854,10pages ElastoplasticalAnalysisoftheInterfacebetweenClayandConcreteIncorporatingtheEffectofthe NormalStressHistory,ZhaoCheng,ZhaoChunfeng,andGongHui Volume2013,ArticleID673057,12pages AnalyticalAnalysisandFieldTestInvestigationofConsolidationforCCSGPileCompositeFoundation inSoftClay,JinYu,YanyanCai,ZhiboQi,YunfeiGuan,ShiyuLiu,andBingxiongTu Volume2013,ArticleID795962,14pages FractureAnalysisofBrittleMaterialsBasedonNonlinearFEMandApplicationinArchDamwith Fractures,YuanweiPan,YaoruLiu,ZhixiongCui,XinChen,andQiangYang Volume2013,ArticleID658160,12pages ComparisonbetweenDuncanandChang’sEBModelandtheGeneralizedPlasticityModelinthe AnalysisofaHighEarth-RockfillDam,WeixinDong,LimingHu,YuZhenYu,andHeLv Volume2013,ArticleID709430,12pages Extended“Mononobe-Okabe”MethodforSeismicDesignofRetainingWalls,MahmoudYazdani, AliAzad,AbolhasanFarshi,andSiamakTalatahari Volume2013,ArticleID136132,10pages DEMSimulationofBiaxialCompressionExperimentsofInherentlyAnisotropicGranularMaterials andtheBoundaryEffects,Zhao-XiaTong,Lian-WeiZhang,andMinZhou Volume2013,ArticleID394372,13pages ComparativeStudyonInterfaceElements,Thin-LayerElements,andContactAnalysisMethodsinthe AnalysisofHighConcrete-FacedRockfillDams,Xiao-xiangQian,Hui-naYuan,Quan-mingLi, andBing-yinZhang Volume2013,ArticleID320890,11pages NumericalSimulationandOptimizationofHoleSpacingforCementGroutinginRocks,PingFu, JinjieZhang,ZhanqingXing,andXiaodongYang Volume2013,ArticleID135467,9pages ExactStiffnessforBeamsonKerr-TypeFoundation:TheVirtualForceApproach,SuchartLimkatanyu, WoraphotPrachasaree,NattapongDamrongwiriyanupap,MinhoKwon,andWooyoungJung Volume2013,ArticleID626287,13pages Three-DimensionalModelingofSpatialReinforcementofSoilNailsinaFieldSlopeunderSurcharge Loads,Yuan-deZhou,KaiXu,XinweiTang, andLeslieGeorgeTham Volume2013,ArticleID926097,12pages AnalyticalSolutionsofSphericalCavityExpansionNearaSlopeduetoPileInstallation,JingpeiLi, YaguoZhang,HaibingChen,andFayunLiang Volume2013,ArticleID306849,10pages ApplicationofD-CRDMMethodinColumnarJointedBasaltsFailureAnalysis,ChangyuJin, XiatingFeng,ChengxiangYang,DanFang,JiangpoLiu,andShuaiXu Volume2013,ArticleID848324,10pages MicromechanicalFormulationoftheYieldSurfaceinthePlasticityofGranularMaterials, HomayounShaverdi,Mohd.RaihanTaha,andFarzinKalantary Volume2013,ArticleID385278,7pages AUnifiedElastoplasticModelofUnsaturatedSoilsConsideringCapillaryHysteresis,TiantianMa, ChangfuWei,PanChen,HuihuiTian,andDe’anSun Volume2013,ArticleID537185,15pages Pile-ReinforcementBehaviorofCohesiveSoilSlopes:NumericalModelingandCentrifugeTesting, LipingWangandGaZhang Volume2013,ArticleID134124,15pages BoundaryValueProblemforAnalysisofPortalDouble-RowStabilizingPiles,ChengHuang Volume2013,ArticleID485632,10pages SimplifiedBoundaryElementMethodforKinematicResponseofSinglePilesinTwo-LayerSoil, FayunLiang,HaibingChen,andWeiDongGuo Volume2013,ArticleID241482,12pages TheoreticalAnalysisandExperimentalStudyofSubgradeMoistureVariationandUnderground AntidrainageTechniqueunderGroundwaterFluctuations,LiuJie,HailinYao,PanChen,ZhengLu, andXingwenLuo Volume2013,ArticleID703251,8pages LongwallMiningStabilityinTake-OffPhase,Mar´ıa-Bele´nPrendes-Gero,Jose´Alcalde-Gonzalo, PedroRam´ırez-Oyanguren,Francisco-Jose´Sua´rez-Dom´ınguez, andMartina-InmaculadaA´lvarez-Ferna´ndez Volume2013,ArticleID859803,12pages AModelofAnisotropicPropertyofSeepageandStressforJointedRockMass,Pei-taoWang, Tian-hongYang,TaoXu,Qing-leiYu,andHong-leiLiu Volume2013,ArticleID420536,19pages TemperatureandPressureDependenceoftheEffectiveThermalConductivityofGeomaterials: NumericalInvestigationbytheImmersedInterfaceMethod, DucPhiDoandDashnorHoxha Volume2013,ArticleID456931,13pages AMathematicalApproachtoEstablishingConstitutiveModelsforGeomaterials,Guang-huaYang, Yu-xinJie,andGuang-xinLi Volume2013,ArticleID739068,10pages BendingMomentCalculationsforPilesBasedontheFiniteElementMethod,Yu-xinJie,Hui-naYuan, Hou-deZhou,andYu-zhenYu Volume2013,ArticleID784583,19pages HindawiPublishingCorporation JournalofAppliedMathematics Volume2013,ArticleID123485,1page http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/123485 Editorial Mathematical and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering GaZhang,1PengchengFu,2andFayunLiang3 1SchoolofCivilEngineering,TsinghuaUniversity,Beijing100084,China 2Atmospheric,Earth,andEnergyDivision,LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory,Livermore,CA94550,USA 3DepartmentofGeotechnicalEngineering,CollegeofCivilEngineering,TongjiUniversity,Shanghai200092,China CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoGaZhang;[email protected] Received2October2013;Accepted2October2013 Copyright©2013GaZhangetal.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,which permitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Mathematicalandnumericalmodelingisamatureyetvibrant Thesepapersareexpectedtobehelpfulreferencesforall research area in geotechnical engineering. Its advancement thoseinthefieldofmathematicalandnumericalmodelingin has been accelerated in recent years by many emerging geotechnicalengineering. computationaltechniquesaswellastheincreasingavailability ofcomputationalpower.Awidespectrumofapproaches,on Acknowledgments the basis of continuously advancing understanding of soil behavior, has been developed and applied to solve various The guest editors of this special issue would express their problems in geotechnical engineering. These methods are sinceregratitudetoalltheauthorsandanonymousreviewers increasingly playing important roles not only in achieving whohavegenerouslycontributedtothisspecialissue. better understanding of fundamental behavior of geomate- rials and geostructures but also in ensuring the safety and GaZhang sustainabilityoflarge-scalecomplexgeoengineeringprojects. PengchengFu The aim of this special issue is to present original FayunLiang research articles on mathematical and numerical modeling ingeotechnicalengineering.Atotalof26high-qualitypeer- reviewedpaperswereselectedtobepublishedinthisspecial issue.Thetopicscovervariousaspectsasfollows. (1)Development and discussion of constitutive models of geomaterials including unsaturated soil, granular, rockfill,jointrockmass,andsoil-structureinterface. (2)Proposalofanalyticalsolutionstosoil-structureinter- actionsystems. (3)Development of numerical methods to evaluate responseofretainingwall,pilefoundation. (4)Novel applications of mathematical and numerical modeling to practical geotechnical projects such as pilefoundations,soilnails,mining,jointrockmass, rockgrouting,rockfilldams,andarcdams.