Thermo-Hydromechanical and Chemical Coupling in Geomaterials and Applications: Proceedings of the 3 International Symposium GeoProc'2008

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Thermo-Hydromechanical and Chemical Coupling
in Geomaterials and Applications
Thermo-Hydromechanical
and Chemical Coupling in
Geomaterials and Applications
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium
GeoProc’2008

Edited by
Jian-Fu Shao
Nicolas Burlion
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Thermo-hydromechanical and chemical coupling in geomaterials and applications : proceedings of the
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Jian-Fu Shao Chairman
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D. Kondo
F. Skoczylas

International Scientific Committee
E. Alonso (Spain) H. Niitsuma(Japan)
J. Carmeliet (Belgium) Y. Ohnishi (Japan)
A.H.-D. Cheng (USA) A. Onaisi (France)
K. T. Chau (Hong Kong) S. Pietruzczak (Canada)
O. Coussy (France) G. Pijaudier-Cabot (France)
E. Detournay (USA) J.-C Rougiers (USA)
L. Dormieux (France) J. Rudnicki (USA)
M. Dusseault (Canada) B. A. Schrefler (Italy)
D. Elsworth (USA) P. Selvadurai (Canada)
X.-T. Feng (China) O. Stephansson (Sweden)
A. Gens (Spain) K. Su (France)
R. M. Holt (Norway) H. Thomas (UK)
Y. Jiang (Japan) M. Wallner (Germany)
L. Jing (Sweden) J. Wang (China)
P. Landais (France) S.-J. Wang (China)
C.F. Lee (Hong Kong, China) H. Xie (China)
C. I. Lee (Korea) W. Xu(China)
R. W. Lewis (UK) Q.Yang (China)
J. Liu (Australia) J. H. Yin (Hong Kong)
D. Lydzba (Poland) J. Zhao (Switzerland)
G. Meschke (Germany) R. Zimmerman (Sweden)
I. Neretnieks (Sweden)
Table of Contents
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 CO Wells Ageing through Water/Supercritical
2
CO /Cement Interactions – J. Corvisier, A. Fabbri, F. Brunet, Y. Leroy,
2
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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