Phase transition in saturated porous media: pore-fluid segregation in consolidation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2011.05.015zbMATH Open1222.76096arXiv1004.1310OpenAlexW2134509114MaRDI QIDQ720698FDOQ720698

Authors: Nicoletta Ianiro, Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Giulio Sciarra 

Publication date: 11 October 2011

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider the consolidation process typical of soils, this phenomenon is expected not to exhibit a unique state of equilibrium, depending on the extit{external loading} and the constitutive parameters. Beyond the standard solution, also pore-fluid segregation, which is typically associated with fluidization of the granular material, can arise. Pore-fluid segregation has been recognized as a phenomenon typical of the short time behavior of a saturated porous slab or a saturated porous sphere, during consolidation. In both circumstances Biot's three dimensional model provides time increasing values of the water pressure (and fluid mass density) at the center of the slab (or of the sphere), at early times, if the Lam'{e} constant $mu$ of the skeleton is different from zero. This localized pore-fluid segregation is known in the literature as Mandel--Cryer effect. In this paper a non linear poromechanical model is formulated. The model is able to describe the occurrence of two states of equilibrium and the switching from one to the other by considering a kind of extit{phase transition}. Extending classical Biot's theory a more than quadratic strain energy potential is postulated, depending on the strain of the porous material and the variation of the fluid mass density (measured with respect to the skeleton reference volume). When the consolidating pressure is strong enough the existence of two distinct minima is proven.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1310

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionporous mediabifurcation theorygranular materials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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