Model development and calibration for the coupled thermal, hydraulic and mechanical phenomena of the bentonite

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1255-1261

  Chijimatsu, Masakazu ^a   Börgesson, Lenart ^b   Fujita, Tomoo ^c   Jussila, Petri ^d   Nguyen, Son ^e   Rutqvist, Jonny ^f   Jing, Lanru ^g  

^a Hazama Corporation   (Japan)

^b CLAY TECHNOLOGY AB   (Sweden)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e CANADIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION   (Canada)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DECOVALEX; Radioactive waste

Indexed keywords

DECOVALEX; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HYDRO MECHANICALS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH TEAMS; SWELLING PRESSURES; WATER UPTAKES;

BENTONITE; CALIBRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; SPENT FUELS;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

BENTONITE; CALIBRATION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; LABORATORY METHOD; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; SAFETY; SWELLING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOHYDROMECHANICS; WATER UPTAKE;

EID: 67349210743     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1401-2     Document Type: Article

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