A general analysis of poroelasticity for vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) shows that four eigenvectors are pure shear modes with no coupling to the pore-fluid mechanics. The remaining two eigenvectors are linear combinations of pure compression and uniaxial shear, both of which are coupled to the fluid mechanics. After reducing the problem to a 2 × 2 system, the analysis shows in a relatively...

The present study is the first to analyze the dynamic response of a poroelastic beam subjected to a moving force. Moreover, the influences of attached mass-spring systems and non-ideal supports (with local movements in the supporting points or base due to the presence of factors such as gaps, unbalanced masses, and friction or seismic excitations) on the responses were investigated. Non-ideal s...

Recent advances in contact mechanics have formalized approaches to distinguish between poroelastic and viscoelastic deformation regimes via load relaxation experiments, and to simultaneously extract the mechanical and transport properties of gels at the macroscale. As poroelastic relaxation times scale quadratically with contact diameter, contact radii and depths on the mm scale can require hou...

The outcome of a bone fracture partly depends upon the mechanical environment experienced by the fracture callus (reparative tissue) during the healing. Therefore biomechanics of bone fracture healing has been examined in many clinical or biological, mathematical or finite element studies (Cheal et al. 1991, DiGioia et al. 1986, Claes et al. 1999, Doblaré et al. 2004 and Oh et al. 2010). Most o...

Percolation phenomena play central roles in the eld of poroelasticity, where two distinct sets of percolating continua intertwine. A connected solid frame forms the basis of the elastic behavior of a poroelastic medium in the presence of external con ning forces, while connected pores permit a percolating uid (if present) to in uence the mechanical response of the system from within. The presen...

A model of random polycrystals of porous laminates is introduced to provide a means for studying geomechanical properties of double-porosity reservoirs having one class of possible microstructures. Calculations on the resulting earth reservoir model can proceed semi-analytically for studies of either the poroelastic or transport coefficients, but the poroelastic coefficients are emphasized here...

We are interested in the modeling of wave propagation in poroelastic media. We consider the biphasic Biot’s model in an infinite bilayered medium, with a plane interface. We adopt the Cagniard-De Hoop’s technique. This report is devoted to the calculation of analytical solutions in two dimensions. The solutions we present here have been used to validate numerical codes. Key-words: Biot’s model,...

S U M M A R Y We present a derivation of the equations describing wave propagation in porous media based upon an averaging technique which accommodates the transition from the microscopic to the macroscopic scale. We demonstrate that the governing macroscopic equations determined by Biot remain valid for media with gradients in porosity. In such media, the well-known expression for the change i...

In a fluid-saturated porous medium, an electromagnetic (EM) wavefield induces an acoustic wavefield due to the electrokinetic effect. A potential geophysical application of this effect is electroseismic (ES) logging, in which the converted acoustic wavefield is received in a fluid-filled borehole to evaluate the parameters of the porous formation around the borehole. In this paper, a finite-dif...

The dynamical investigation of two-component poroelastic media is important for practical applications. Analytic solution methods are often not available since they are too complicated for the complex governing sets of equations. For this reason, often some existing numerical methods are used. In this work results obtained with the finite element method are opposed to those obtained by Schanz u...