| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 205, 2020
2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT 2020)
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| Article Number | 09003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Minisymposium: Engineered Geomaterials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (organized by Alessandro Rotta Loria) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020509003 | |
| Published online | 18 November 2020 | |
Micromechanical interpretation of thermo-plastic behaviour of clays
1 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, 3SR, 38000 Grenoble (France)
2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, (Scotland, UK)
* Corresponding author: angela.casarella@3sr-grenoble.fr
The effect of temperature on mechanical behaviour of clay-based geomaterials is relevant in a number of geotechnical applications (e.g. low enthalpy geothermal systems and energy geostructures, nuclear waste disposal, and heating in rapid shear deformation). Mechanical response of (saturated) clays upon heating is not always intuitive as volume changes may occur due to both thermal expansion of clay constituents and temperature-induced changes of clay microstructure. This paper first revisits the macroscopic thermally-induced mechanical behaviour of saturated clays available in the literature via an advanced thermo-elastoplastic constitutive model and then elucidates the dependence on clay mineralogy of the two key parameters of the model (mechanical hardening and thermal softening respectively) by inspecting differences in clay inter-particle electro-chemical forces occurring in kaolinitic, illitic, and smectitic clays. The micromechanically-based interpretation of constitutive parameters can serve as a guidance for soil parameter selection in the design of energy geostructures.
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