The dusty gas model constitutive relationships were incorporated into a numerical model for three-phase, multicomponent flow and transport in porous media. The dusty gas model properly accounts for interactions between all gas-phase species in multicomponent gas mixtures. The model also included Knudsen diffusion, which becomes important in very fine grained soils. The dusty gas model results w...

We present a finite deformation constitutive theory for non-cohesive granular media. The material model falls in the family of the so-called Cam-clay theories. As typical of Cam-clay models, soil is assumed to be frictional with a logarithmic-type compression. The same state boundary surface––described by ellipses––is taken as yield and plastic potential surface. Hardening is related only to pl...

in saturated soils, heating induces thermal expansion of both grains and the pore fluid. lower thermal expansion coefficient of aggregates results in the increase of pore pressure and reduction of the effective stress besides subsequent volume changes due to the dissipation of pore pressure and heat transfer. dissipation of thermally induced pore pressure with time is a coupled thermo-hydro-mec...

A two-dimensional finite element model is proposed to simulate transient seepage for complex groundwater flow systems. The complete soil system is treated as a continuum encompassing flow in both saturated and unsaturated zones. In the unsaturated zone, the air phase is assumed to be continuous and open to atmospheric pressure. The coefficient of permeability of the unsaturated soil is assumed ...

As a type of special geological body, soil-rock mixtures (SRMs) are widely found in nature and used civil engineering. Many structures, such as rockfill dams, highways tunnels, have SRMs building materials. Proper modeling is great importance to capture the complex behavior this heterogeneous material. In manuscript, simple constitutive model incorporating skeleton void ratio concept proposed f...