At the present, due to the need for engineering works of large scale in urban environment, the engineer is confronted often with the challenge of performing deep excavations, which should be designed to be stable and with acceptable levels of deformations. A stable deep excavation is that, whose walls do not collapse and its base does not experience uncontrolled heave. Soil deformations can affect neighboring buildings, urban roads and other public facilities, with consequences that depend on both the magnitude and the pattern of the movement of the soil around the excavation. The prediction of the behavior of a deep excavation therefore involves stability analysis as well as deformation analysis. Stability analysis can generally be made through limit equilibrium methods, but deformation analyses are more difficult to predict, requiring the assistance of numerical methods. In this dissertation the behavior of deep excavations is numerically investigated by the finite element method, with special attention to the occurrence of deformations, for this prediction requires the use of constitutive models that represent many aspects of behavior of real soils.