The Soga Research Group and collaborators have published a new paper in the journal Computers and Geotechnics: “Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method”, authored by Lauren Talbot, Joel Given, former SRG member Dr. Ezra Tjung, Dr. Yong Liang of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Dr. Khaled Chowdhury of USACE, Prof. Raymond Seed, and Prof. Kenichi Soga.
The paper focuses on advances to the Material Point Method (MPM), an advanced numerical modeling technique with applications in large-deformation geomechanics, and how these advances allow for an improved model of the well-known Lower San Fernando Dam (LSFD) failure in 1971.