Compaction induces anisotropy on soil deformational response due to preferential straining associated with the fabrication process. An experimental insight into the stress-strain response of Barcelona clayey silt is provided ...

In an earlier paper it was already suggested that the anisotropy of the tortuosity yields essential changes of the attenuation of the waves in poroelastic media depending on the propagation direction in relation to the ...

The simulation of real-life problems, with complex moving geometries evolving in unsteady flows in three dimensions, still remains a challenge. To reduce the CPU time of these simulations while preserving their accuracy, ...

An experimental study on Ypresian clays – one of the potential deep and sedimentary clay formations in Belgium for the geological disposal of heat-emitting radioactive waste – has been undertaken to systematically study ...

The Francfort-Marigo model of quasi-static brittle fracture [1] is a very accurate model, but requires minimizing a highly irregular energy functional. However, this functional can be approximated by a suitable regularization, ...

For the simulation of water flow with waves, grid refinement must be anisotropic to limit the total grid size. For these flows, the grid has to be refined at the water surface, to resolve the conservation law which ...

The extremely fi ne structure of vertebral cortex challenges reliable determination of the tissue's anisotropic elasticity, which is important for the spine's load carrying patterns often causing pain in patients. As a ...

In this note, two problems arisen in micropolar elasticity are considered from the analytical point of view. Following the Kelvin–Voigt theory of micropolar viscoelasticity, two dissipative mechanisms are imposed: in the ...

This paper tackles the issues related to the excavation of a horizontal gallery carried out in Boom clay, a tertiary clay that hosts the Underground Laboratory of the Belgium Nuclear Agency (SCK-CEN). The gallery is 85 m ...

It has long been recognised that soils are generally anisotropic with some of their properties varying depending on the direction of measurement. In particular, strength anisotropy should be a main concern in relation with ...