Advances in Laboratory Testing and Modelling of Soils and Shales (ATMSS)

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Argillaceous Rocks....Pages 3-13
Plastic Deformations of Unsaturated Fine-Grained Soils Under Cyclic Thermo-Mechanical Loads....Pages 14-28
Shale Capillarity, Osmotic Suction and Permeability, and Solutions to Practical Testing Issues....Pages 29-36
Modelling the Mechanical Behaviour of Callovo-Oxfordian Argillite. Formulation and Application....Pages 37-44
Intrinsic and State Parameters Governing the Efficiency of Bentonite Barriers for Contaminant Control....Pages 45-56
Multiscale Approach to Micro-Poro-Mechanical Modelling of Unsaturated Shales....Pages 57-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Measurement of Supercritical CO2 Permeability in Porous Rock at Reservoir Conditions....Pages 69-77
Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Thin Clay Films and Comparison with Molecular Simulations....Pages 78-84
Advanced Meso-Scale Modelling to Study the Effective Thermo-Mechanical Parameter in Solid Geomaterial....Pages 85-95
Identification of Local Mechanisms in Clays and Energy-Based Modelling....Pages 96-103
Coupled Membrane and Diffusion Testing of Active Clays for Barrier Applications....Pages 104-111
Evidences of the Effects of Free Gas on the Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Peat....Pages 112-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Use of Psychrometers, Capacitive Sensors and Vapour Transfer Technique to Determine the Water Retention Curve of Compacted Bentonite....Pages 123-130
Water Content Effect on the Fault Rupture Propagation Through Wet Soil-Using Direct Shear Tests....Pages 131-138
Specimen Preparation Techniques for Testing Fully and Partially Saturated Sands in Dynamic Simple Shear (DSS) Test Device with Confining Pressure....Pages 139-146
Measurement of Vertical Strain of Compacted Bentonite Subjected to Hydration Effort on Creep Test....Pages 147-154
Response of Clay Rock to Moisture Change....Pages 155-164
Volumetric Behaviour of Lime Treated High Plasticity Clay Subjected to Suction Controlled Drying and Wetting Cycles....Pages 165-172
Crack Initiation and Propagation of Clays Under Indirect Tensile Strength Test by Bending Related to the Initial Suction....Pages 173-180
Evaluation of the Instantaneous Profile Method for the Determination of the Relative Permeability Function....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
A Double Cell Triaxial Apparatus for Testing Unsaturated Soil Under Heating and Cooling....Pages 191-198
A Suction- and Temperature-Controlled Oedometric Device....Pages 199-206
Acoustic Emission Technology to Investigate Internal Micro-Structure Behaviour of Shear Banding in Sands....Pages 207-214
Direct and Indirect Local Deformations of Sand in Undrained Cyclic Triaxial Tests by Image Analysis Technique....Pages 215-222
A New Laboratory Setup for Phase Equilibria Studies of Methane Hydrate in Porous Media....Pages 223-230
An Experimental Platform for Measuring Soil Water Characteristic Curve Under Transient Flow Conditions....Pages 231-238
Determining Fluid Compressibility and Soil Permeability of Quasi Saturated Sand with the Alternating Flow Apparatus....Pages 239-246
Effect of Specimen Confinement Method on Simple Shear Test of Clay....Pages 247-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Fractal Analysis of the Progressive Failure of Shales and Stiff Clays Under Shear....Pages 257-263
Recent Developments in Measurement and Use of Fully Softened Shear Strength in the USA....Pages 264-272
Chemical Influence of Pore Pressure on Brine Flow in Clay-Rich Material....Pages 273-280
Development of Classification Charts for Q Index of Shale from the Parameters....Pages 281-287
Exploring Fissure Opening and Their Connectivity in a Cenozoic Clay During Gas Injection....Pages 288-295
Profiling the In Situ Compressibility of Cretaceous Shale Using Grouted-in Piezometers and Laboratory Testing....Pages 296-303
Influence of Surface Roughness of the Fracture on Hydraulic Characteristics of Rock Mass....Pages 304-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
The Role of Anisotropy on the Volumetric Behaviour of Opalinus Clay upon Suction Change....Pages 315-321
1D Compression Behaviour of Opalinus Clay....Pages 322-329
Consolidated-Undrained Triaxial Test Results of Opalinus Clay and Comparison with Caprock Shales....Pages 330-337
One Dimensional Consolidation of Opalinus Clay from Shallow Depth....Pages 338-344
Lessons Learned from Electron Microscopy of Deformed Opalinus Clay....Pages 345-350
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
The Rock Mechanical Behavior of Opalinus Clay – 20 Years of Experience in the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory....Pages 351-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Cyclic Testing on Low-Density Chalk....Pages 359-366
Long Duration Oedometric Tests to Analyse the Creep Behaviour of Lacustrine Sediments....Pages 367-374
Deep Soil Mixing Method for the Bio-cement by Means of Bender Element Test....Pages 375-381
Studying of Shale Organic Matter Structure and Pore Space Transformations During Hydrocarbon Generation....Pages 382-387
On the Application of Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation for Soils: A Multiscale Study....Pages 388-394
Determination of Intergranular Strain Parameters and Their Dependence on Properties of Grain Assemblies....Pages 395-401
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Experimental and Numerical Study of the Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Energy Piles for Belgian Practice....Pages 405-412
Drained and Undrained Analysis for Foundations Based on Triaxial Tests....Pages 413-420
Impact of Thermally Induced Soil Deformation on the Serviceability of Energy Pile Groups....Pages 421-428
Numerical Analysis of Seismic Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction in Soft Soil with Strong Nonlinearity and Its Validation by 1g Shaking Table Test....Pages 429-436
On the Interface Shearing Behavior Between Granular Soil and Artificial Rough Surfaces....Pages 437-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Constitutive Framework for Unsaturated Soils with Differentiation of Capillarity and Adsorption....Pages 447-454
Coupled Analysis of CO2 Injection Induced Stress Variation in the Caprock....Pages 455-462
Efficient Parameter Identification for THM Behaviour of Claystone Using Optimization Methods....Pages 463-470
A Thermodynamic Model for Rate-Dependent Geomaterials....Pages 471-478
Thermo-Viscoplastic Subloading Soil Model for Isotropic Stress and Strain Conditions....Pages 479-485
Numerical Simulation of Multi-phase Flow in CO2 Geological Sequestration....Pages 486-492
Mechanics and Modeling of Cohesive Frictional Granular Materials....Pages 493-500
Numerical Modelling of Liquefaction Tests of Partially Saturated Sands in CSSLB....Pages 501-508
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Aspects of Thermal Fracturing of Clays with Electromagnetic Excitation....Pages 509-516
Reproduction of Discrete Element Model by 3D Printing and Its Experimental Validation on Permeability Issue....Pages 517-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-527