This is a summing-up report based on 48 papers on the applications of numerical method to soil mechanics. Recently

there is a new development of coupling of finite element with other numerical ones in soil mechanics. The dynamic numerical analyses have found further application to nonlinear stress-strain relationship

effective stress

and three dimensional problems. The suitable contact element or conjunct element could be used for contact conditions in finite element calculation. It is an important direction to combine usual numerical method with probabilistic method

which has been used in evaluations of consolidation effect

slope stability

dam

seepage

deformation calculation

interaction

and the performance analyses of pole and foundation.