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Water retention behavior of deformable soils-experiment and modeling

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

The paper presents an experimental and modelling approach for the soil water retention behaviour of two deformable soils. The objective is to investigate the physical mechanisms that govern the soil water retention properties and to propose a constitutive ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Retention behaviour of natural clayey materials at different temperatures

Lyesse Laloui, Simon Salager, Marta Rizzi

The water retention capacity of geomaterials, and especially clayey soils, is sensitive to temperature changes as the physical mechanisms of retention, such as capillarity or adsorption, are affected by it. It is therefore a major issue to be able to defin ...

Springer Verlag2013

Constitutive analysis of the mechanical anisotropy of Opalinus Clay

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

This paper aims to analyse the anisotropic features of behaviour of Opalinus Clay using the theory of plastic multi-mechanisms. The results of triaxial tests conducted with different load levels and directions showed that the mechanical behaviour of this s ...

Springer Verlag2013

An investigation into the water retention behaviour of deformable soils

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

The paper presents an experimental and modelling approach for the soil water retention behaviour of two deformable soils. The objective is to investigate the physical mechanisms that govern the soil water retention properties and to propose a constitutive ...

National Research Council Canada2013

Testing the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of a Shale

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Simon Salager

European Association of Geoscientist and Engineers2012

An Innovative Device for Determining the Soil Water Retention Curve Under High Suction at Different Temperatures

Lyesse Laloui, Simon Salager, Marta Rizzi

In order to characterize the water retention behavior of fine soils, very high suction values have to be applied. In this range of values, the vapor equilibrium technique is usually used. This paper presents an innovative device, a sorption bench, which pe ...

Springer Verlag2011

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

Investigations on water retention behaviour of deformable soils

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

The trend in modern unsaturated soil mechanics is to enhance the physical understanding of the soil water retention properties. It is agreed that the retention characteristics depend on the state of compaction and are related to the deformability of the me ...

Taylor & Francis Group2010

Anisotropic features of the mechanical behaviour of Opalinus clay

Lyesse Laloui, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

The Opalinus Clay is a potential host rock for radioactive waste repositories. Triaxial tests at different load levels and directions carried out on Opalinus clay showed that the mechanical behaviour of this soft rock is anisotropic. The stiffer samples ar ...

CRC Press2010

Experimental Investigations of Temperature and Suction Effects on Compressibility and Pre-Consolidation Pressure of a Sandy Silt

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François, Simon Salager

Research interest in the thermo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils is growing as a result of an increasing number of geomechanical problems involving both thermal and unsaturated effects. In this framework, this paper addresses a unified thermo-mech ...

2008