Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2010-04-08
Physica D 240, 1345-1351 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
Consider the consolidation process typical of soils, this phenomenon is expected not to exhibit a unique state of equilibrium, depending on the \textit{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 \textit{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.
Cirillo Emilio N. M.
Ianiro Nicoletta
Sciarra Giulio
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