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Chemo-mechanical couplings in porous media geomechanics and biomechanics /

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The book addresses fundamental issues faced by experimentalists, modelers and engineers interested in different physical, mechanical and transport aspects of biological tissues and chemically active geological materials, mainly clays and shales. The focus is on the couplings between electro-chemical...

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Corporate Authors: CISM Course on Chemo-Mechanical Couplings in Porous Media--Geomechanics and Biomechanics Udine, Italy, SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Loret, B. (Editor), Huyghe, Jacques M. R. J. (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Wien ; New York : Springer, [2004]
Series:Courses and lectures ; number 462.
Subjects:
Biomechanical Phenomena > Congresses.
Computer Simulation > Congresses.
Electrochemistry > Congresses.
Porosity > Congresses.
Porous materials > Congresses.
Clay > Congresses.
Biomechanics > Congresses.
Tissues > Congresses.
Biomechanics.
Clay.
Porous materials.
Tissues.
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Influence of pore fluid composition on volume change. Behaviour of clays exposed to the same fluid as the pore fluid
  • Consolidation, swelling and swelling pressure induced by exposure of clays soils to fluids different from the pore fluid
  • Shear strength of clays and clayey soils: the influence of pore fluid composition
  • Swelling media: concepts and applications
  • Chemo-mechanical interactions in geological and biological materials: examples
  • Multi-phase multi-species mixtures
  • Constitutive equations for homoionic clays
  • Constitutive equations for homoionic clays
  • Mass transfer through membranes and generalized diffusion
  • Finite element formulation, and simulations of laboratory tests
  • Swelling shales and compacting cakes
  • Molecular modelling of pore fluids in clays
  • Polyelectrolyte gels: basics, modelling and simulation.