Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in geo-systems: fundamentals, modelling, experiments and applications, GeoProc2003 conference held at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2003

Content: 
Series Preface
Page v
Professor John A. Hudson FREng

Preface
Page vii
Ove Stephansson, John A. Hudson, Lanru Jing

About the editors Original Research Article
Page ix

International scientific advisory commmittee Original Research Article
Page xi

Coupled thm processes in geological systems and the decovalex project Original Research Article
Pages 3-16
Chin-Fu Tsang, Ove Stephansson, Fritz Kautsky, Lanru Jing

Predicting solute transport in fractured rocks- processes, models and some concerns Original Research Article
Pages 19-30
Ivars Neretnieks

Modelling gas flow through deformable fractured rocks Original Research Article
Pages 31-36
S. Olivella, E.E. Alonso

Research and application on coupled t-h-m-c processes of geological media in china - a review Original Research Article
Pages 37-48
Xia-Ting Feng, Jianjun Liu, Lanru Jing

Coupled processes and petroleum geomechanics Original Research Article
Pages 49-62
Maurice B. Dusseault

Some thmc controls on the evolution of fracture permeability Original Research Article
Pages 63-71
Derek Elsworth

Detection of hydraulically created permeable structures in hdr/hwr reservoir by high resolution seismic mapping techniques Original Research Article
Pages 73-79
Hiroaki Niitsuma

Recent study of coupled processes in geotechnical and geoenvironmental fields in china Original Research Article
Pages 81-91
Wang Sijing, Wang Enzhi

The febex benchmark test. case definition and comparison of different modelling approaches Original Research Article
Pages 95-111
E.E. Alonso, J. Alcoverro

Modelling the response of the bentonite in the febex heater experiment Original Research Article
Pages 113-118
A.P.S. Selvadurai, G. Armand

Thm simulation of the full-scale in-situ engineered barrier system experiment in grimsel test site in switzerland Original Research Article
Pages 119-124
Yutaka Sugita, Masakazu Chijimatsu, Akira Ito, Hiroshi Kurikaml, Akira Kobayashi, Yuzo Ohnishi

Hydromechanical response of jointed host granitic rock during excavation of the febex tunnel Original Research Article
Pages 125-130
Steven Sobolik, Stephen Webb, Akira Kobayashi, Masakazu Chijimatsu

Analyses of coupled hydrological-mechanical effects during drilling of the febex tunnel at grimsel Original Research Article
Pages 131-136
J. Rutqvist, A. Rejeb, M. Tijani, C.-F. Tsang

Thermomechanical model for compacted bentonite Original Research Article
Pages 137-142
Petri Jussila

A fully coupled three-dimensional thm analysis of the febex in situ test with the rocmas code: prediction of thm behavior in a bentonite barrier Original Research Article
Pages 143-148
J. Rutqvlst, C.-F. Tsang

A discrete approach to modelling hydromechanical rock response of febex tunnel excavation (grimsel underground research laboratory, switzerland) Original Research Article
Pages 149-154
Véronique Merrien-Soukatchoff, Imad Kadirm K.S.U, Yves Guglielmi S.

Measuring thermal, hydrological, mechanical, and chemical responses in the yucca mountain drift scale test Original Research Article
Pages 155-160
Robin Datta, Deborah Barr, William Boyle

Analysis of stress and moisture induced changes in fractured rock permeability at the yucca mountain drift scale test Original Research Article
Pages 161-166
J. Rutqvist, C.-F. Tsang, Y. Tsang

Thermal-mechanical modeling of a large-scale heater test Original Research Article
Pages 167-173
S.M. Hsiung, A.H. Chowdhury, M.S. Nataraja

Numerical simulation of thermal-hydrological processes observed at the drift-scale heater test at yucca mountain, nevada Original Research Article
Pages 175-180
Ronald T. Green, Scott Painter

Thm analysis of a heating test in a fractured tuff Original Research Article
Pages 181-186
S. Olivella, A. Gens, C. Gonzalez

Comparative Analyses of Predicted and Measured Displacements During the Heating Phase of the Yucca Mountain Drift Scale Test Original Research Article
Pages 187-192
Alain Millard, Jonny Rutqvist

Building Confidence in the Mathematical Models by Calibration With A T-H-M Field Experiment Original Research Article
Pages 193-198
M. Chijimatsu, L Jing, A. Millard, T.S. Nguyen, A. Rejeb, J. Rutqvist, M. Souley, Y. Sugita

Numerical Simulation of Variably Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Fractured Porous Media Original Research Article
Pages 199-204
Martin Kohlmeier, René Kaiser, Werner Zielke

Numerical Implementation of Thermally and Hydraulically Coupled Processes in Non-Isothermal Porous Media Original Research Article
Pages 205-210
Joëlle De Jonge, Mingliang Xie, Olaf Kolditz

Evaluation of Thm Coupling on the Safety Assessment of a Nuclear Fuel Waste Repository in a Homogeneous Hard Rock Original Research Article
Pages 211-216
A. Millard, A. Rejeb, M. Chijimatsu, L. Jing, J. De Jonge, M. Kohlmeier, T.S. Nguyen, J. Rutqvist, M. Souley, Y. Sugita

Evaluation of the Impact of Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical Couplings in Bentonite and Near-Field Rock Barriers of a Nuclear Waste Repository in Sparsely Fractured Hard Rock Original Research Article
Pages 217-223
J. Rutqvist, M. Chijimatsu, L. Jing, A. Millard, T.S. Nguyen, A. Rejeb, Y. Sugita, C.F. Tsang

Implications of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes on the Safety of a Hypothetical Nuclear Fuel Waste Repository Original Research Article
Pages 225-230
T.S. Nguyen, M. Chijimatsu, J. De Jonge, L. Jing, M. Kohlmeier, A. Millard, A. Rejeb, J. Rutqvist, M. Souley, Y. Sugita

Development of a Methodology to Quantify the Importance of Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Radionuclide Migration Assessments Original Research Article
Pages 231-236
Philipp Blum, Rae Mackay, Michael S. Riley

Understanding the Impact of Hydro-Mechanical Coupling on Performance Assessment of Deep Waste Disposal Original Research Article
Pages 237-242
Philipp Blum, Rae Mackay, Michael S. Riley

Impact of Flow and Transport Coupling in the Upscaling of Transport Parameters for Performance Assessment in the Context of Nuclear Waste Disposal Original Research Article
Pages 243-249
J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández, Eduardo F. Cassiraga

Upscaling the Thermohydromechanical Properties of a Fractured Rock Mass Using a Modified Crack Tensor Theory Original Research Article
Pages 251-256
Varut Guvanasen, Tin Chan

Effect of the Fracture Geometry on the Coupled Phenomena In Large Scale Original Research Article
Pages 257-262
Akira Kobayashi, Yutaka Sugita, Masakazu Chijimatsu

Upscaling of Normal Stress-Permeability Relationships for Fracture Networks Obeying Fractional Levy Motion Original Research Article
Pages 263-268
Hui-Hai Liu, Jonny Rutqvist, Quanlin Zhou, Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

A Block-Scale Stress-Permeability Relationship of a Fractured Rock Determined by Numerical Experiments Original Research Article
Pages 269-274
Ki-Bok Min, Jonny Rutqvist, Chin-Fu Tsang, Lanru Jing

Hydro-Mechanical Upscaling of a Fractured Rockmass Using A 3D Numerical Approach Original Research Article
Pages 275-280
Thoraval Alain, Renaud Vincent

Thermo-Mechanical Effects on Hydraulic Conductivity in a Nuclear Waste Repository Setting Original Research Article
Pages 281-286
Johan Öhman, Juha Antikainen, Auli Niemi

A Finite-Element Study of Potential Coupled Hydromechanical Effects of Glaciation on a Crystalline Rock Mass Original Research Article
Pages 287-292
Tin Chan, Frank W. Stanchell, Thomas Wallroth, Jan Hernelind, Geoffrey Boulton

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Impacts of Coupling Between Glaciers and Permafrost Original Research Article
Pages 293-298
Geoffrey Boulton, Juha Hartikainen

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (T-H-M) Impacts of Glaciation and Implications for Deep Geologic Disposal of Nuclear Waste Original Research Article
Pages 299-304
Geoffrey Boulton, Tin Chan, Rolf Christiansson, Lars O. Ericsson, Juha Hartikainen, Mark R. Jensen, Frank W. Stanchell, Thomas Wallroth

Temperature Influence on the Mechanical Behaviour of a Compacted Bentonite Original Research Article
Pages 305-310
Maria Victoria Villar, Antonio Lloret

Impact Of In-Situ Parameters and Boundary Conditions on the Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of a Clay Engineered Barrier System. Original Research Article
Pages 311-316
N. Barnel, T. Lassabatère, C. Le Potier, P. Sémété

Analysis of the Thmc Behaviour of Compacted Swelling Clay for Radioactive Waste Isolation Original Research Article
Pages 317-322
A. Gens, L. do N. Guimarães, S. Olivella, M. Sánchez

A New Mechanistic Approach to Simulating Swelling Processes in Bentonite Materials Original Research Article
Pages 323-328
Mingliang Xie, Wenqing Wang, Joëlle De Jonge, Olaf Kolditz

Application of a Thm-Coupled Code to Transport Processes in a Swelling Bentonite Buffer Original Research Article
Pages 329-333
Thomas Nowak, Hua Shao, Manfred Wallner

Drying and Resaturation of the Bentonite Barrier in a Nuclear Waste Repository. Analyses Based on an Analytical Solution Original Research Article
Pages 335-340
Johan Claesson

Fabric changes of a pellet-based bentonite buffer material and their effects on mechanical behaviour Original Research Article
Pages 341-346
C. Hoffmann, E.E. Alonso, E. Romero

A Conceptual and numerical model for thermal-hydrological-chemical processes in the yucca mountain drift scale test Original Research Article
Pages 347-352
Eric L. Sonnenthal, Nicolas F. Spycher, Mark Conrad, John Apps

A Research program for numerical experiments on the coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical and chemical processes in the near-field of a high-level radioactive waste repository Original Research Article
Pages 353-358
Akira Ito, Mikazu Yum, Yutaka Sugita, Susumu Kawakami

Geomod - an integrated geoscientific model of the äspö hard rock laboratory, sweden Original Research Article
Pages 359-364
R. Christlansson, J.A. Hudson, J. Berglund, M. Laaksoharju, H. Hakami, P. Vidstrand, J Sundberg

Prototype code development for numerical experiments on the coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical and chemical processes in the near-field of a high-level radioactive waste repository Original Research Article
Pages 365-370
Atsushi Neyama, Akira Ito, Masakazu Chijimatsu, Yoshinao Ishihara, Tomoyuki Hishiya, Mikazu Yui, Yutaka Sugita, Susumu Kawakami

Modelling three phase hydro-mechanical coupling in porous media: application to a real scale experiment Original Research Article
Pages 371-376
Georg Klubertanz, Jean Croisé, Michel de Combarieu, Ken Ando

T-H-M Modelling of the prototype experiment at äspö hrl (sweden) Original Research Article
Pages 377-382
Alberto Ledesma, Guangjing Chen

Interpretation of some in-situ tracer experiments in fractured crystalline rock at äspö hard rock laboratory Original Research Article
Pages 383-388
Ivars Neretnieks

The on-going pillar stability experiment at the äspö hard rock laboratory, sweden Original Research Article
Pages 389-394
Christer Andersson, Mikael Rinne, Isabelle Staub, Toivo Wanne

Algorithms for parallel fem modelling of thermo-mechanical phenomena arising from the disposal of the spent nuclear fuel Original Research Article
Pages 395-400
R. Blaheta, P. Byczanski, R. Kohut, J. Stary

Thermo-mechanical modeling of a subsurface interim nuclear waste storage: behavior in working conditions Original Research Article
Pages 401-406
Thouvenin G., Millard A.

Effect of coupling behavior of the near field on groundwater flow of the far field for geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste Original Research Article
Pages 407-412
Hiroshi Kurikami, Akira Kobayashi, Masakazu Chijimatsu, Yutaka Sugita, Yuzohnishl

Impact of temperature increase on nuclide transport in crystalline rock on the near field scale Original Research Article
Pages 413-418
Hua Cheng, Vladimir Cvetkovic

Desiccation and rehumidification effects on the thermohydromechanical behaviour of the callovo-oxfordian argillaceous rock Original Research Article
Pages 419-424
Su K., Hoteit N., Ozanam O.

Thermo-mechanical simulations of pillar spalling in skb apse test by fracod Original Research Article
Pages 425-430
Mikael Rinne, Baotang Shen, Hee-Suk Lee, Lanru Jing

T-H-M-C Modelling of rock mass behaviour - 1 : the purposes, the procedures and the products Original Research Article
Pages 433-438
J. Andersson, J.A. Hudson

T-H-M-C Modelling of rock mass behaviour: 2 - the input data and rock mass partitioning Original Research Article
Pages 439-444
J.A. Hudson, J. Andersson

Simulation of consolidation and transport processes in clayey rocks Original Research Article
Pages 445-450
Maxim G. Khramchenkov

Verification and validation of a three-dimensional finite-element code for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical and salinity (t-h-m-c) modelling in fractured rock masses Original Research Article
Pages 451-456
Tin Chan, Varut Guvanasen, Frank W. Stanchell

Water flow and diffusion problem in bentonite: molecular simulation and homogenization analysis Original Research Article
Pages 457-464
Y. Ichikawa, S. Prayongphan, K. Kawamura, K. Kitayama

Analysis of the hydraulic interaction between clay buffer and host rock in a large scale test Original Research Article
Pages 465-470
H.R. Thomas, P.J. Cleall, N. Chandler, D. Dixon, H.P. Mitchell

Modelling groundwater pressure and thermal loading in three-dimensional discontinuous deformation analysis Original Research Article
Pages 471-476
Q.H. Jiang, M.R. Yeung, N. Sun

Penetration-induced pore pressure magnitudes - methods to determine transport parameters from terrestrial and marine penetrometer testing Original Research Article
Pages 477-482
D Elsworth, D.S. Lee, H. Long, P.B. Flemings

A Double-porosity poroelastic model to relate p-wave attenuation to fluid flow in vuggy carbonate rock Original Research Article
Pages 483-488
Jorge Parra, Chris Hackert, Steven Pride

Thermo-mechanical yielding of a clay Original Research Article
Pages 489-493
Cane Cekerevac, Lyesse Laloui

An elastoplastic damage model for unsaturated argillites Original Research Article
Pages 495-500
Shao J.F., Jia Y., Kondo D.

Study on the time-temperature equivalent principle for rocks Original Research Article
Pages 501-506
Quansheng Liu, Chongge Wang, Tsutomu Yamaguchi

On the significance of hydrodynamic control for radionuclide retention in fractured porous media Original Research Article
Pages 507-511
V. Cvetkovic

Fundamental thermodynamic requirements for porous media description Original Research Article
Pages 513-521
T.J.T.(Tim) Spanos, Maurice B. Dusseault, Norman Udey

Modelling contamination of clays Original Research Article
Pages 523-528
N. Boukpeti, R. Charlier, T. Hueckel

Dependence of subcritical crack growth in rocks on water vapor pressure Original Research Article
Pages 529-534
Nara Yoshitaka, Kaneko Katsuhiko

Thermomechanical modeling of the microstructured porous media with inclusions Original Research Article
Pages 535-540
Pasquale Giovine

Analysis of mechanical and hydraulic properties of cracked structure by the ratio of crack opening dependency (rcod) Original Research Article
Pages 541-546
Dr.Akira Sato, Dr.Yoshiaki Hirakawa, Dr.Katsuhiko Sugawara

Characterizing in the laboratory permeability changes induced by deviatoric stress in clayey rocks Original Research Article
Pages 547-552
C. Coll, J. Desrues, P. Bésuelle, G. Viggiani

Coupled thermal, hydraulic and mechanical simulation with a theoretical model for swelling characteristics Original Research Article
Pages 553-558
Hideo Komine, Hiroshi Kurikami, Masakazu Chijimatsu, Akira Kobayashi, Yutaka Sugita, Yuzo Ohnishi

On the constitutive modelling of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in elastic media with double porosity Original Research Article
Pages 559-564
N. Khalili, A.P.S. Selvadurai

Simulation of coupled fluid flow and solute transport in a rough fracture Original Research Article
Pages 565-570
Wang Jinguo, Zhou Zhifang

Coupled thermo-mechano-chemical processes in shales: the petroleum borehole Original Research Article
Pages 573-580
Maurice B. Dusseault

A Coupled mechanical-thermal-physico-chemical model for the study of time-dependent wellbore stability in shales Original Research Article
Pages 581-586
S.K. Choi, C.P. Ta, R Freij-Ayou

Mechanical behaviour of chalk reservoirs: numerical modelling of water sensitivity effects Original Research Article
Pages 587-592
F. Collin, Y.J. Cui, Ch. Schroeder, R. Charlier

Coupled analysis of sand stability in petroleum wellbores Original Research Article
Pages 593-598
Gang Han, Maurice B. Dusseault

Coupled analysis of damage formation around wellbores Original Research Article
Pages 599-604
L.do N. Guimaraes, A. Gens, S. Olivella

Development of 3d fem software for two-phase flow and its application to horonobe natural gas simulation Original Research Article
Pages 605-610
H. Li, M. Sato, T. Sakai

A Coupled flow-transport-deformation model for underground coal gasification Original Research Article
Pages 611-616
Jishan Liu, Cliff Mallett, Andrew Beath, Derek Elsworth, Barry Brady

Investigating the relationship between fault permeability and effective stress using constraints from reservoir induced seismicity (ris) Original Research Article
Pages 617-622
Rebecca J Lunn, Aderson F do Nascimento, Patience Cowie

Visual numerical simulation of coupled gas leak flow and coal-rock deformation in parallel coal seams Original Research Article
Pages 623-628
Peide Sun

A Coupled geomechanical-reservoir model for the modelling of coal and gas outbursts Original Research Article
Pages 629-634
Choi S.K., Wold M.B.

Application of fluid-solid coupling theory in oil field casing damage forecast Original Research Article
Pages 635-640
Jianjun Liu, Xiating Feng

Permeability in layered reservoirs: field examples and models on the effects of hydrofracture propagation Original Research Article
Pages 643-648
Sonja L. Brenner, Agust Gudmundsson

The effect of thermal, chemical, hydrological, and mechanical factors on water/rock interaction in hdr geothermal systems Original Research Article
Pages 649-654
S. Fomin, Z. Jing, T. Hashida