Study of the initiation and propagation of excavation damaged zones around openings in argillaceous rock

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1325-1335

  Millard, Alain ^a   Maßmann, Jobst ^b   Rejeb, Amel ^c   Uehara, Shin ^d  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argillite; Damage; Excavation; Hydro mechanical coupling; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

ARGILLACEOUS ROCKS; ARGILLITE; CONCEPTUAL MODELS; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; DAMAGE; ELASTIC MATERIALS; EXCAVATION DAMAGED ZONES; EXCAVATION-DISTURBED ZONES; HYDRAULIC COUPLINGS; HYDRO MECHANICALS; HYDRO-MECHANICAL COUPLING; IN-SITU; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL MODELS; MOHR-COULOMB FAILURE CRITERIONS; NUCLEAR WASTES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS; POST-PROCESSING; ROCK MASS; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; STRESS STATE; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; TIME EVOLUTIONS; UNDERGROUND REPOSITORIES; VISCOPLASTIC; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLINGS; EXCAVATION; EXTRACTION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; ROCKS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ARGILLITE; EXCAVATION STRUCTURE; HYDROMECHANICS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; ROCK MECHANICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; VISCOPLASTICITY; WASTE FACILITY;

AVEYRON; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MIDI-PYRENEES; TOURNEMIRE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349244688     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1518-3     Document Type: Article

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