Predicting the pore pressure distribution in a slope after rapid drawdown conditions requires the solution of a coupled flow‐deformation analysis in a saturated‐unsaturated porous media. A fully coupled finite element code ...

Polyester (PET) materials have become more common as reinforcement solution in reinforced soil walls (RSW). It has been shown that strength and stiffness of geosynthetics products, including PET, is load-, time-, and ...

The current paper presents an investigation on the tensile strength of unsaturated clay, and a discussion about the significant differences between the behaviours of compacted soils and those of the completely remoulded ...

Several coupled flow formulations to model the osmotic processes in clays have been proposed in the literature. These theories were mostly used to model aspects such as osmotically induced consolidation, salt water intrusion ...

This paper presents the numerical analysis of an experimental soil drying test carried on an initially slurry soil specimen with controlled temperature and relative humidity in a laboratory environmental chamber. The imposed ...

A fully coupled formulation combining reactive transport and an existing thermo- hydro-mechanical (THM) code is briefly described. Special attention has been given to phenomena likely to be encountered in clay barriers ...

Recently, there is a tendency to explore the possibility of increasing the maximum design temperature in deep geological repositories for high-level nuclear waste and spent fuel. In the paper, a number of issues related ...

Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) is a controllable process that can be used by engineers to stabilise temporarily the ground, provide structural support and/or exclude groundwater from an excavation until construction of ...