Nanda, a former PhD student from our group, now a postdoc at Berkeley ME, attended the 16th World Congress in Computational Mechanics held on July 21-26, 2024, in Vancouver, Canada. He presented the work he did during his PhD in collaboration with Prof. Ryota Hashimoto (Kyoto University) and Prof. Ken Kamrin (Berkeley/MIT). His presentation was entitled “Development of mixed material point method for analysis of… Read More »Nanda’s Presentation at 16th WCCM
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… Read More »Paper: Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method