For years, many studies of subduction zones and on-land fold-and-thrust belts have
assumed that the frontal portions of accretionary prisms are too weak to rupture …

The effective stress law for the permeability of a limestone is studied experimentally by
performing constant-head permeability tests in a triaxial cell with different conditions of …

A constitutive, non-isothermal unified hardening (UH) model is presented to interpret the
thermo-elasto-plastic behaviours of normally consolidated and overconsolidated clays. Two …

A deep geological facility (Cigéo project) is planned, if authorized, in the Callovo-Oxfordian
claystone (COx) for the disposal of all long-lived radioactive waste produced in France. The …

Clays and argillites are considered in some countries as possible host rocks for nuclear
waste disposal at great depth. The use of compacted swelling clays as engineered barriers …

Coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical (THM) numerical modeling is conducted to study
thermal management associated with geologic disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in large …

During an earthquake, the heat generated by fault friction may be large enough to activate
the devolatilization of minerals forming the fault rocks. In this paper, we model the …

In this work, we propose an extension of the phase field model for the modeling of hydraulic
fracturing or cracking in heterogeneous saturated porous media. The involved extensions …

This study presents a fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) constitutive model for
clay rocks. The model is formulated within the elastic-viscoplasticity framework, which …

A method is presented for the evaluation of the permeability–porosity relationship in a low-
permeability porous material using the results of a single transient test. This method …