• Crystal growth and soil expansion: the role of interfacial pressure and pore structure 

      Ramon Tarragona, Anna; Alonso Pérez de Agreda, Eduardo (CRC Press, 2014)
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      The paper summarizes first a set of field observations in connection with the severe heave experienced by Lilla tunnel excavated in a Tertiary anhydritic claystone. Heave and swelling pressures against the tunnel rigid ...
    • Laboratory experiments on swelling due to crystal growth in sulphate argillaceous rocks 

      Deu, Amadeu; Romero Morales, Enrique Edgar; Berdugo de Moya, Iván Rafael (CRC Press, 2013)
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      Crystal growth is a frequent cause of expansive deformations in natural soils, compacted soils, rocks and concrete. The sulphate crystallization in discontinuities and cracks due to evaporation of highly mineralized solutions ...
    • Onset of sidebranching in directional solidification 

      Echebarría Domínguez, Blas; Karma, Alain; Gurevich, Sebastian (2010-02-26)
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      We use a computationally efficient phase-field formulation [B. Echebarria et al., Phys. Rev. E 70, 061604 (2004)] to investigate the origin and dynamics of sidebranching in directional solidification for realistic ...
    • Relaxation dynamics vs crystallization kinetics in the amorphous state: the case of Stiripentol 

      Ruiz, Guadalupe N.; Romanini, Michela; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Pardo Soto, Luis Carlos; Macovez, Roberto (2017-11-06)
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      With the aim of finding a correlation between the crystallization kinetics and the molecular dynamics of a substance that would allow prediction of its crystallization time as a function of temperature for a given a ...