LEM is a numerical method that is used to investigate fracture development in rock materials. It is a novel approach that does not require fracture path to be predefined. Fully coupled 1D beam-element lattice networks are used to represent 3D… Read More »Lattice Element Method (LEM)
FEM is a numerical method that utilizes discretization to develop then solve a system of equations to numerically approximate the solution to differential equations of interest. Beyond geotechnical modeling, FEM is very frequently used for modeling structural analysis, heat transfer,… Read More »Finite Element Method (FEM)
MPM is a particle-based method that represents material as a collection of material points. Each material point’s movement is determined via solving Newton’s laws of motion. MPM is a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian approach, which uses moving material points and a fixed… Read More »Material Point Method (MPM)
Ph.D. Student Email: lauren.talbot ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Lauren is a Ph.D. student within the Soga Research Group at Berkeley. Her research area is computational geomechanics, with a focus on the Material Point Method (MPM). Lauren’s current work involves developing… Read More »Lauren Talbot
Ph.D. Student Email: paola_lorusso ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Paola graduated from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy with both a BS and an MS in Architecture. During her studies, she developed an interest in fire safety engineering and simulations of… Read More »Paola Lorusso
PhD Student Email: joelgiven ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Joel is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley within Prof. Kenichi Soga’s computational geomechanics group. Joel’s research currently focuses on two main areas: MPM MPM modeling is completed with a single-phase explicit… Read More »Joel Given
Ph.D. Candidate Office: 415 Davis Hall Email: bchandra ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Nanda is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Kenichi Soga on computational geomechanics research. Before coming to Berkeley, he obtained his B.Eng in… Read More »Bodhinanda Chandra
Visiting Researcher Email: nonakasa ‘at’ kajima ‘dot’ com Saki is a visiting researcher in the Soga Research Group. She has been working at Kajima Corporation as a research engineer, mainly focusing on fluid analysis. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s… Read More »Saki Nonaka
Visiting Researcher Email: yuya-nakashima ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Yuya Nakashima is a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked at Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. for 12 years, where he is in charge of materials engineering… Read More »Yuya Nakashima
The 7th annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium will be held on Friday, November 17, 2023, from 1-5 pm at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus. The symposium features the research conducted by current Ph.D.… Read More »The 7th Annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium