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Ronaldo I. Borja is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works predominantly within the field of Engineering. Their research contributions focus heavily on Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Geophysics.

Their main research topics cover Rock Mechanics and Modeling, Numerical methods in engineering, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Landslides and related hazards, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures.

Ronaldo I. Borja has published extensively in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Acta Geotechnica
  • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Borja include Sabrina C.Y. Ip, Alomir H. Fávero Neto, Enrique M. del Castillo, Jhe-Wei Lee, and Yang Zhao.

Selected recent papers illustrate the focus and breadth of their work:

  • "A continuum framework for coupled solid deformation-fluid flow through anisotropic elastoplastic porous media," 2020, published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • "Poroelastic coefficients for anisotropic single and double porosity media," 2021, published in Acta Geotechnica
  • "Dynamic strain localization into a compaction band via a phase-field approach," 2023, published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Simulation of debris flow on an instrumented test slope using an updated Lagrangian continuum particle method," 2020, published in Acta Geotechnica
  • "Anisotropic elastoplastic response of double-porosity media," 2021, published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Best Publications

  • Geological and mathematical framework for failure modes in granular rock

    Atilla Aydin;Ronaldo I. Borja;Peter Eichhubl

  • Stabilized low-order finite elements for coupled solid-deformation/fluid-diffusion and their application to fault zone transients

    Joshua A. White;Ronaldo I. Borja

  • Cam-Clay plasticity. Part V: A mathematical framework for three-phase deformation and strain localization analyses of partially saturated porous media

    Ronaldo I. Borja

  • Cam-Clay plasticity, part I: implicit integration of elastoplastic constitutive relations

    R. I. Borja;S. R. Lee

  • Centrifuge model test on the face stability of shallow tunnel

    Gregor Idinger;Pelin Aklik;Wei Wu;Ronaldo I. Borja

  • On the mechanical energy and effective stress in saturated and unsaturated porous continua

    Ronaldo I. Borja

  • Plasticity: Modeling & Computation

    Ronaldo I. Borja

  • Estimating the impact force generated by granular flow on a rigid obstruction

    Shuji Moriguchi;Ronaldo I. Borja;Atsushi Yashima;Kazuhide Sawada

  • Cam-Clay plasticity, Part II: implicit integration of constitutive equation based a nonlinear elastic stress predictor

    Ronaldo I. Borja

  • On the numerical integration of three-invariant elastoplastic constitutive models

    Ronaldo I. Borja;Kossi M. Sama;Pablo F. Sanz

  • A finite element model for strain localization analysis of strongly discontinuous fields based on standard Galerkin approximation

    Ronaldo I. Borja

  • Cam-Clay plasticity part III: Extension of the infinitesimal model to include finite strains

    Ronaldo I. Borja;Claudio Tamagnini

  • Instrumented nanoindentation and 3D mechanistic modeling of a shale at multiple scales

    Kane C. Bennett;Lucas A. Berla;William D. Nix;Ronaldo I. Borja

  • A constitutive model for the stress–strain–time behaviour of ‘wet’ clays

    R. I. Borja;Edward Kavazanjian

  • Dynamics of porous media at finite strain

    Chao Li;Ronaldo I. Borja;Richard A. Regueiro

  • Continuum deformation and stability analyses of a steep hillside slope under rainfall infiltration

    Ronaldo I. Borja;Joshua A. White

  • A contact algorithm for frictional crack propagation with the extended finite element method

    Fushen Liu;Ronaldo I. Borja

  • NONLINEAR GROUND RESPONSE AT LOTUNG LSST SITE

    Ronaldo I. Borja;Heng-Yih Chao;Francisco J. Montáns;Chao-Hua Lin

  • Strain localization in frictional materials exhibiting displacement jumps

    Ronaldo I. Borja;Richard A. Regueiro

  • A mathematical framework for finite strain elastoplastic consolidation Part 1: Balance laws, variational formulation, and linearization

    Ronaldo I. Borja;Enrique Alarcón

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Pollard
David D. Pollard Stanford University
Brian A. Ebel
Brian A. Ebel United States Geological Survey
Yin Lu Young
Yin Lu Young University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Keith Loague
Keith Loague Stanford University
Edward Kavazanjian
Edward Kavazanjian Arizona State University
WaiChing Sun
WaiChing Sun Columbia University
Atilla Aydin
Atilla Aydin Stanford University
Raymond B. Seed
Raymond B. Seed University of California, Berkeley
James K. Mitchell
James K. Mitchell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
William D. Nix
William D. Nix Stanford University

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