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Desiccation shrinkage of non-clayey soils: multi-physics mechanisms and a microstructural model

Analysis of macroscopic desiccation shrinkage experiments indicates that most, but not all of the shrinkage during drying occurs while soil is still saturated. Shrinkage practically ceases and air starts to penetrate the soil, when the water content is sti ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Desiccation shrinkage of non-clayey soils: a numerical study

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron

A meso-scale model based on the evolution of the pore system and idealized as bimodal is numerically examined. A simplified evolution of the model reveals a series of characteristics that qualitatively agree with the observed macroscopic experimental findi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Formation of drying crack patterns in soils : a deterministic approach

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron

Soils, as well as most of deformable multiphase porous materials, are likely to suffer from desiccation cracking, leading to the formation of regular crack patterns affecting their permeability. The ensuing cracks spacing has often been related to a concep ...

Springer Verlag2013

A multi-scale multi-physics model of soil drying

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron

Drying shrinkage is modeled at a microscale as a two-stage process of deformation and evacuation of a two-tube vessel system, based on porosimetry evolution. In the first stage water flow is driven by an external evaporation flux. Flow is associated with a ...

ASCE2011

Benchmark of experimental techniques for measuring and controlling suction

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron

The paper presents a benchmarking study carried out within the ‘Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils for Engineering’ (MUSE) network aimed at comparing different techniques for measurement and control of suction. Techniques tested by the eight ‘Mechanics of Unsa ...

2011

Geotechnical analysis of heat exchanger piles

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, Christoph Knellwolf

There is currently a lack of established calculation method for the geotechnical design of heat exchanger piles, although the technology is experiencing a fast expansion. Instead of quantifying the effects of temperature changes on the static behavior of h ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2011

A method for the geotechnical design of heat exchanger piles

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, Christoph Knellwolf

There is currently a lack of established calculation method for the geotechnical design of heat exchanger piles. Thermo-mechanical effects are ignored and large overall security factors are therefore applied. This paper presents a new geotechnical numerica ...

ASCE2011

Modelling of drying and cracking initiation in a gallery excavated in shale

Lyesse Laloui, John Eichenberger, Hervé Péron, Simon Salager

Damage induced by desiccation (i.e. drying shrinkage and cracking) is an issue to be investigated in deep geological nuclear waste storage engineering. A dried and cracked zone can form in the underground gallery host shale due to ventilation effects. Incr ...

CRC Press2010

Drying shrinkage and cracking initiation in clays: Main modeling concepts and application to the ventilation of a tunnel

Lyesse Laloui, John Eichenberger, Hervé Péron

Damage induced by desiccation in clays (i.e. drying shrinkage and cracking) is an issue to be investigated in geo-environmental engineering, especially when the clay is used as a confining barrier for industrial and nuclear waste storage. Dramatic increase ...

Taylor & Francis Group2010

Understanding the thermo-mechanical response of heat exchanger piles

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, Mathieu Nuth

Although the adaptation of deep foundations into heat exchangers is receiving growing attention, geothermal research is focusing mostly on energy optimization aspects. Meanwhile, the primary bearing function of the foundation must remain unaltered. Also, p ...

International Centre for Computational Engineering2009