15 years of in situ cement-argillite interaction from Tournemire URL: Characterisation of the multi-scale spatial heterogeneities of pore space evolution

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2159-2171

  Gaboreau, S ^a,c   Pret D ^b   Tinseau, E ^a   Claret, F ^c   Pellegrini, D ^a   Stammose, D ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D MAPPING; CLAY MATERIALS; CONFINEMENT PROPERTIES; DEEP GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY; ENGINEERED BARRIERS; FISSURE NETWORKS; FRENCH INSTITUTE; HOST ROCKS; IN-SITU; INTERACTION TIME; INTERFACE GEOMETRY; LONG TERM EVOLUTION; MULTISCALES; NUCLEAR SAFETY; PETROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; PORE SPACE; POROSITY MEASUREMENT; RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELLING; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STEEL CANISTERS; TIME-SCALES; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

CEMENTS; CLAY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; ROCKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VISUALIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

POROSITY;

ARGILLITE; BRIDGE; CEMENT; CLAY MINERAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOMETRY; HETEROGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE SPACE; POROSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIMESCALE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AVEYRON; FRANCE; MIDI-PYRENEES;

EID: 82155162494     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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