• Effect of suction and plasticity on the shear strength of sand/silt mixtures 

      Villar, María Victoria; Martín, Pedro Luís; Gómez-Espina, Ramón; Lloret Morancho, Antonio (Taylor & Francis, 2010)
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      This paper presents results of an experimental study on the effect of suction on the shear behaviour of sand/silt mixtures as determined with direct shear tests performed under suction control. The device used to perform ...
    • Experimental investigation into temperature effect on hydro-mechanical behaviours of bentonite 

      Villar, María Victoria; Gómez-Espina, R.; Lloret Morancho, Antonio (Science Press, 2010)
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      The bentonite barrier of underground repositories for high-level radioactive waste will be hydrated by the groundwater while it is subjected to high temperatures due to the radioactive decay of the wastes. These changes ...
    • Experimental results on the effect of temperature on the hydromechanical behaviour of bentonite 

      Villar, María Victoria; Gómez-Espina, R.; Lloret Morancho, Antonio (2009)
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    • Mechanical behaviour of heavily compacted bentonite under high suction changes 

      Lloret Morancho, Antonio; Villar, María Victoria; Sánchez, M.; Gens Solé, Antonio; Pintado Llurba, Xavier; Alonso Pérez de Agreda, Eduardo (Institution of Civil Engineers (http://www.ice.org.uk/), 2003)
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      The paper reports the results of an experimental study carried out on a bentonite compacted to a dry density of up to 1·7 Mg=m3, a high value for this type of soil. The soil fabric has been studied using a variety of ...
    • RESEAL II: a large-scale in situ demonstration for repository sealing in an argillaceous host rock: phase II 

      Valleján, Beatriz; Gens Solé, Antonio; Mingarro, M.; García-Gutiérrez, M.; Villar, María Victoria; Plas, F.; Filippi, M.; Touzé, G.; Van Geet, Maarten; Bastiaens, W.; Volckaert, G.; Weetjens, E.; Sillen, X.; Maes, N.; Imbert, Ch.; Billaud, P. (2009)
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    • Saturation of barrier materials under thermal gradient 

      Villar, María Victoria; Martín, Pedro Luis; Romero, Francisco Javier; Iglesias, Rubén Javier; Gutiérrez-Rodrigo, Vanesa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria del Terreny, Cartogràfica i Geofísica, 2015-06-02)
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    • Simulation of expansive clay behavior under simultaneous heating-hydration for nuclear waste storage applications 

      Sánchez, M.; Gens Solé, Antonio; Villar, María Victoria; Lloret Morancho, Antonio (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2010)
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      The storage of nuclear waste is still an unresolved problem of the nuclear industry, being geological disposal the most favoured option. Most conceptual designs for the deep geological disposal of nuclear waste envisage ...
    • Swelling pressure evolution in compacted bentonite: experiments and modelling 

      Sánchez, M.; Villar, María Victoria; Gómez-Espina, R.; Lloret Morancho, Antonio; Gens Solé, Antonio (CRC Press/Balkema, 2010)
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      This work presents experimental results about the saturation of bentonite under constant volume and the simultaneous development of swelling pressure. The tests have been performed at room temperature under conditions of ...