Thermo-Hydromechanical and Chemical Coupling in Geomaterials and Applications

Jian-Fu Shao is a Professor at the University of Science and Technology in Lille, France. Nicolas Burlion is with the Civil Engineering department of Polytech Lille in France.

Preface xiii

Keynote Lectures 1

Physical Mechanics of In-Pore Phase Transition – O. Coussy 3

Localized Failure in Brittle Rock – J. W. Rudnicki 25

Coupled Analysis of Chemo-Mechanical Processes – A. Gens, L. do N. Guimarães, A. M. Fernández, S. Olivella, M. Sánchez 41

Drilling Into the San Andreas Fault – T.-F. Wong 59

Section 1 Fundamentals of Mechanics of Porous Media 75

A Numerical Model for CO2 Wells Ageing through Water/Supercritical CO2/Cement Interactions – J. Corvisier, A. Fabbri, F. Brunet, Y. Leroy, B. Goffé, G. Rimmelé, V. Barlet-Gouédard 77

Study on Shear Stress-Strain Model for Unsaturated Soil – W. Wang, T. Lu, L. Ji 85

How Lead Affects the Hydraulic and Microscopic Properties of a Smectite H. Souli, J-M Fleureau 93

Study of Settlements in a Granular Medium by a Probabilistic Approach D. Boumezerane, L. Herzine, F. Ouali, B. Tabti 101

Mechanics of a Soil, a Dynamically Coupled Solid-Water Gas System Conceptual Aspects – J. P. Oostveen 113

Mechanics of a Soil, a Dynamically Coupled Solid-Water Gas System Undrained Compression – J. P. Oostveen 121

Mechanics of a Soil, a Dynamically Coupled Solid-Water Gas System Shear Compression Interaction – J. P. Oostveen 131

Simulation and Contrastive Analysis of Typical Pollutant Transporting L. Chen, Y. Liang 141

Section 2 Experimental Characterization of Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Porous Media 149

Gas Retention Phenomenon in Dry or Partially-Saturated Concrete: Permeability Assessment – X. Chen, F. Robert, C. Davy, F. Skoczylas, M. Moranville 151

Simultaneous Measurement of Expansion and Water Humidity Sorption on Montmorillonitic Clays – I. Kolarikova, R. Hanus 161

Effect of Temperature on Migration of Gas and Brine in Compacted Salt Y. Cinar, H. Alkan, O. Olafuyi 171

The effect of Wetting Conditions on the Mechanical Strength of Chalk B. Zangiabadi, T. A. Davidian, R. I. Korsnes, K. A. N. Vorland, T. G. Kristiansen, M. V. Madland 179

Induced Geometry in Chalk during Hydrochloric Acid Stimulation – E. Omdal, E. Dirdal, K. Ormark, K.A.N. Vorland, R.I. Korsnes, T.G. Kristiansen, T.L. Knutsen, T. Hildebrand-Habel, M.V. Madland 187

An Experimental Investigation of the Evolution of Rock Poromechanical Properties Associated with Chemical Alteration Processes – E. Bemer, J-M. Lombard 195

Electrokinetic Treatment of a Natural Silt in Saturated and Unsaturated Conditions – L. Gabrieli, C. Jommi, G. Musso, E. Romero 203

Normal Stress-Induced Permeability Reduction of a Fracture in a Large Granite Cylinder – A.P.S Selvadurai 211

Experimental Study of the Water Permeability of a Partially Saturated Argillite – P. Semete, C. Imbert, P. Desgree, B. Février, A. Courtois, G. Touzé 219

Application of the Maturity Concept for the Prediction of Restrained Autogenous Shrinkage of Cement Pastes – A. Pertué, P. Mounanga, A. Khelidj 231

Laboratory Experiments on Thermal Effects on Clay Rocks – C-L Zhang, T. Rothfuchs, K. Su 239

Mechanical Compaction of Porous Sandstone: an Experimental Study using Acoustic Emission (AE) Monitoring – J. Fortin, S. Stanchits, G. Dresen, Y. Guéguen 251

An Analysis of the Pulse Test and the Light of Residual Hydraulic Potentials A.P.S Selvadurai 259

Section 3 Constitutive Models for T-H-M-C Coupling and Multi-scale Approaches 267

Formulating Material Properties in Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Modeling G. Ziefle, J. Maßmann, M. Kohlmeier, W. Zielke 269

Partially Coupled Fluid Flow Modeling for Stress Sensitive Naturally Fractured Reservoirs – A.R Shaik, N.H. Tran, M.A. Aghighi, A.H. Syed, S.S. Rahman 277

Poromechanical Modeling of Hygric Shrinkage and Crystallization Swelling in Layered Porous Materials – H. Derluyn, A.S. Poupeleer, D. Van Gemert, J. Carmeliet 289

Fan-shaped Model of Clay Swelling Process – M. G. Khramchenkov 297

Early Age Autogenous Deformations of Cement-Based Materials M. Bouasker, F. Grondin, P. Mounanga, A. Khelidj 305

Identification of the Hydro-Mechanical in-Situ Properties of Tournemire Argillite from Mine-by-test Experiment – A. Millard, A. Rejeb 313

Model of Coupled Thermo-Hydraulic Transport in Bentonite Based on Mobile and Immobile Water Phase – M. Hokr, D. Frydrych 321

Orthotropic Anisotropic Damage Coupled Modeling of Saturated Porous Rock – Y.F. Lu, D.F. Liu 329

Numerical Evaluation of Effective Transport Properties of Random Cell Models: Two-Point Probability Approach – A. Rozanski, D. Lydzba, J. F. Shao 345

Section 4 Numerical Modeling of T-H-M-C Processes 353

Numerical Analysis of the Desaturation Process at the Argillaceous Tournemire Site (France) – J. Maßmann, G. Ziefle, M. Kohlmeier, W. Zielke, H. Shao, A. Rejeb 355

Numerical Study of the Influence of Fractures on the EDZ around a Nuclear Waste Emplacement Drift – X-T Feng, J. Rutqvist, P-Z Pan 363

Modeling THM Processes in Rocks with the Aid of Parallel Computing – R. Blaheta, P. Byczanski, R. Kohut, J. Starý 373

Influence of Excavation of Disposal Tunnel on the Near-Field Coupled Thermal, Hydraulic and Mechanical Phenomena – M. Chijimatsu, Y. Tsukada, A. Kobayashi, T. Fujita 381

The Probabilistic Method: An Efficient Tool to Take into Account the Parameters Variability of Modeling for Durability Design Process F. Deby, M. Carcasses, A. Sellier 391

The Influence of Fractures in the Wall-Block Model Domain in the EDZ using an EPCA Code – P-Z Pan, X-T Feng, X-H Huang, H. Zhou 399

Simulations of the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of an Annular Reinforced Concrete Structure Heated up to 200°C – M. V. G. De Morais, B. Bary, G. Ranc, S. Durand, A. Courtois 409

Hydraulic Modeling of Unsaturated Zones Around Three Openings at the Argillaceous Tournemire Site (France) – S. Uehara, A. Kobayashi, M. Chijimatsu, Y. Ohnishi, T. Fujita, A. Rejeb 419

Modeling of Non-Isothermal THM Coupled Processes In Multi-Phase Porous Media – W. Wang, H. Shao, O. Kolditz 427

Scale and Stress Effects on Permeability Tensor of Fractured Rocks with Correlated Fracture Length and Aperture – A. Baghbanan, L. Jing 439

3D Fully Coupled Multiphase Modeling of Ekofisk Reservoir – C. Ringlet, R. Charlier, Ch. Schroeder, F. Collin 447

Evolution of Permeability in Siliceous Rocks by Dissolution and Precipitation Under Hydrothermal Conditions – H. Yasuhara, N. Kinoshita, H. Kurikami, S. Nakashima, K. Kishida 457

Are Uncertainties on the Spatial Distribution of Rock Properties Influential in Coupled Reservoir/Geomechanical Modeling? – T. Hu, F. Fournier, J-J. Royer 465

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Concrete at High Temperature C. Melhem, H. Boussa, H. Dumontet 473

Development of Loads in a Shaft Foundation in Salt Rock due to Seasonal Temperature Changes – S. Krug, J. Hesser, H. Shao 481

An Analytical Model to Calculate the Stress Field Induced by a Thin Axisymmetric Producing Reservoir – M. Chertov, M. Thiercelin 489

Time and Chemical Effects on Rock Sample Failure – M. Rinne, B. Shen, T. Backers 499

Effects of Pore Pressure on Failure Process and Acoustic Emissions of Rock Specimen with Pre-existing Random Imperfections – X.B.Wang 507

Modeling the Three-dimensional Hydraulic Performance of a Prototype Repository System within Fractured Crystalline Rock – P. Vardon, H.R. Thomas, P. Cleall 517

Numerical Simulation of laboratory coupled shear-flow tests for Rock Fractures – T. Koyama, T. Tsukahara, L. Jing, H. Kawamura, Y. Ohnishi 525

Section 5 - T-H-M-C Processes in Durability Mechanics of Concrete and Structures 533

Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete Activation Energy A. Kamen, H. Sadouki 535

Modeling of Mechanical Behavior of Steel Fibre-Reinforced Concrete in a Chemical Evolution Context – G. Camps, A. Turatsinze, A. Sellier, G. Escadeillas, X. Bourbon 543

A Model for Hydration-Drying Interactions in the Concrete Cover M.D. Nguyen, M. Thiery, P. Belin 553

Performance Assessment of a Mortar Added with High Calcareous Filler Amounts – Y. Benachour, C. A. Davy, F. Skoczylas, H. Houari 563

Modeling of Isothermal Drying Process in Cementitious Materials – M. Thiery, P. Belin, V. Baroghel-Bouny, M. D. Nguyen 571

Separation of Damage Mechanisms in Concrete at High Temperature C. De Sa, F. Benboudjema, J. Sicard 581

Experimental Analysis of Concrete Structures Affected by DEF – R.-P. Martin, D. Siegert, F. Toutlemonde 589

Percolation and Early Age Behavior of Concrete – L. Stefan, F. Benboudjema, J.M. Torrenti, B. Bissonnette 597

How can a Crack Opening be Extracted from a Continuous Damage Finite Element Computation? Application for the Estimation of Permeability M. Choinska, F. Dufour, G. Pijaudier-Cabot, A. Huerta, A. Khelidj 605

Effect of Carbonation on the Hydro-Mechanical Properties of Portland Cement A. Fabbri, J. Corvisier, A. Schubnel, F. Brunet, J. Fortin, B. Goffé, V. Barlet- Gouédard, G. Rimmele, Y. Leroy 613

Assessing the Long-Term Behavior of a Radioactive Waste Disposal Tunnel with a Damage Model Incorporating Chemical Degradation Effects A. Kobayashi, M. Chijimatsu, T. Fujita, K. Yamamoto 621

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of a Petroleum Cement Paste: Chemical Degradation Effects – I. Yurtdas, S. Xie, J. Secq, N. Burlion, J.-F. Shao, J. Saint-Marc 629

Experimental Study of Water Desorption and Shrinkage in Mortars and Cement Pastes – T. Rougelot, F. Skoczylas, N. Burlion 637

Section 6 T-H-M-C in Engineering Applications and In-situ Investigations 647

Hydro-Mechanical Response of the Tournemire Argillite to the Underground Openings Excavation: Unsaturated Zones and Mine-by-test Experiment A. Rejeb, K. Ben Slimane, J. Cabrera, J.M. Matray, S. Savoye 649

The Belgian Supercontainer Concept for Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal – S. Poyet 657

Comparative Simulation Study on THM-induced Changes in Hydrological Properties of Fractured Rock near Nuclear Waste Repositories – J. Rutqvist, D. Barr, J.T. Birkholzer, K. Fujisaki, O. Kolditz, Q.-S. Liu, T. Fujita, W. Wang, C.-Y. Zhang 669

Long-term Response of Near-Field BMT Models around a Deposition Hole by BEM – H.S. Lee, M. Rinne, B. Shen 679

Assessment of Modeling Approaches for Analysis of Coupled THMC Processes in the EDZ of Geological Nuclear Waste Repositories – J. Rutqvist, A. Bäckström, M. Chijimatsu, X-T Feng, P-Z Pan, J. Hudson, L. Jing, A. Kobayashi, T. Koyama, H-S Lee, X.-H Huang, M. Rinne, B. Shen, E. Sonnenthal 687

Hydro–Mechanical Modeling of Seepage in Gotvand Dam Foundation M. Sharifzadeh, R. Nateghi, M. Kiyani 697

Atomized Rainfall Effect on Stability of Coupling Hydraulic-Mechanical Unsaturated Rock Slope – Q. Ren, W Y.Xu 707

Index of Authors 715