Digital Twinning methods can produce a reliable digital record of the built environment and enable owners to reliably protect, monitor and maintain the condition of their asset. The built environment is comprised of large assets that need significant resource investments… Read More »Digital Twinning the Built Environment – Ioannis Brilakis
Dayu Apoji was invited to talk at the Annual Congress of the Geotechnical Engineering Society Indonesia (HATTI), which was held in Jakarta on November 9, 2023. His presentation, titled “Applications of Machine Learning in Geo-Engineering, with an Emphasis on Tunneling… Read More »Invited talk at the Annual Congress of the Geotechnical Engineering Society Indonesia
Our group has recently published a paper titled “Shaping the Future of Tunneling with Data and Emerging Technologies,” authored by Dayu Apoji, Prof. Kenichi Soga, and Prof. Brian Sheil of The University of Cambridge, UK, in the Data-Centric Engineering Journal.… Read More »Envisioning a Transformation in the Future of Tunneling
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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. 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 new… 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