This paper presents a study focused on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of a plastic clay under partially saturated conditions. Clay remoulded samples were dried using vapour transfer under one-dimensional conditions. Samples ...

The small-strain shear stiffness of compacted Barcelona silty clay is studied focusing on the effects of the initial state and the microstructure set on compaction. The Proctor plane is used to map these states, which cover ...

In this work we describe a procedure for the smoothing of non-regular yield surfaces and plastic potential functions. We also present several application examples corresponding to different well-known cases. Moreover, we ...

This paper presents an experimental study on the swelling response of compacted Maryland clay specimens subjected to hydration under a range of boundary conditions. The research is multi-scale with swelling tests complemented ...

This paper presents experimental results concerning the influence of drying and compaction on the small strain shear modulus (G0) of samples of a Boom clay reconstituted in the laboratory. For that purpose, samples of Boom ...

This study focuses on the characterisation of thermal conductivity for three potential host rocks for radioactive waste disposal. First, the heat conduction process is reviewed on the basis of an analytical solution and ...

We present a fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical formulation for the simulation of sediment deformation, fluid and heat transport and fluid/solid phase transformations occurring in methane hydrate geological systems. We ...

The paper presents an interpretation of the full-scale ALC1604 in situ heating test carried out in Callovo-Oxfordian claystone (COx) in the Meuse/Haute-Marne underground research laboratory (MHM URL). The MHM URL is a ...