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Research Challenges Involving Coupled Flows in Geotechnical Engineering
Coupled fluid, chemical, heat, and electrical flows are common phenomena that are relevant to a wide variety of applications in Geotechnical Engineering, including the use of engineered clay barriers for waste containment, electro-osmosis for soil consolidation, highly compacted bentonite buffers for high-level radioactive nuclear waste disposal, and electrokinetics for soil contaminant removal, among others. For all of these applications, a fundamental understanding of coupled flow phenomena is required, including the basis of the various phenomena, the potential effect of the phenomena on fundamental soil behavior, and the applicability of the phenomena in both natural and built environments. This chapter highlights some of the advances over the past approximate three decades, including the effects of osmotic phenomena (chemico-osmosis, electro-osmosis, and thermo-osmosis) on the mechanical behavior of clays, the formulations and measurement of coupled flow phenomena, the distinction between phenomenological and microscopic (physical-based) formalisms, and considerations with respect to both saturated and unsaturated soil conditions. Based on the description of these advances, research challenges pertaining to the study of coupled flow phenomena for Geotechnical Engineering applications are identified.
Research Challenges Involving Coupled Flows in Geotechnical Engineering
Coupled fluid, chemical, heat, and electrical flows are common phenomena that are relevant to a wide variety of applications in Geotechnical Engineering, including the use of engineered clay barriers for waste containment, electro-osmosis for soil consolidation, highly compacted bentonite buffers for high-level radioactive nuclear waste disposal, and electrokinetics for soil contaminant removal, among others. For all of these applications, a fundamental understanding of coupled flow phenomena is required, including the basis of the various phenomena, the potential effect of the phenomena on fundamental soil behavior, and the applicability of the phenomena in both natural and built environments. This chapter highlights some of the advances over the past approximate three decades, including the effects of osmotic phenomena (chemico-osmosis, electro-osmosis, and thermo-osmosis) on the mechanical behavior of clays, the formulations and measurement of coupled flow phenomena, the distinction between phenomenological and microscopic (physical-based) formalisms, and considerations with respect to both saturated and unsaturated soil conditions. Based on the description of these advances, research challenges pertaining to the study of coupled flow phenomena for Geotechnical Engineering applications are identified.
Research Challenges Involving Coupled Flows in Geotechnical Engineering
Springer Ser.Geomech.,Geoengineer.
Lu, Ning (editor) / Mitchell, James K. (editor) / Shackelford, Charles D. (author) / Lu, Ning (author) / Malusis, Michael A. (author) / Sample-Lord, Kristin M. (author)
2019-05-25
38 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Anion exclusion , Chemico-osmosis , Conduction phenomena , Coupled flows , Darcy’s law , Diffusion , Electro-osmosis , Fick’s law , Fourier’s law , Membrane behavior , Ohm’s law , Osmosis , Solute restriction , Thermo-osmosis Engineering , Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics , Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences , Geochemistry , Soil Science & Conservation
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