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ILLICON is a fatally flawed code that fails verification with closed-form solutions
thread274-434534 thread274-434534 for the N.A.I.C.M. program for new international airport in Mexico City, Dr. McNulty proved that both of the design computer programs to compute settlement by the Dutch Contractor TASANA (D-Settle) and ILLICON by Dr. G. Mesri of the University of Illinois, had...- eg1776
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Use of computer programs to predict settlement - there are several bad programs out there
Has anyone checked ILLICON 2016 against exact solutions? I am writing a user's manual for my finite element consol program that I wrote several years ago, and was verifying my current version with Hamilton Gray's 1945 solution for 3 cases. However, I was also trying to verify that I understood...- eg1776
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