... to bedding, of (dry) muscovite, a sheet silicate comparable to illite and smectite. 28 03 2019 07 08 2019 08 08 2019 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2019 anisotropy radioactive waste disposal temperature effects The assessment of the thermal impact of heat...

... by means of microstructure investigations, showing that the hydration mechanisms of pure or compacted smectites also explain the hydration and swelling behaviour of the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone, a possible host rock for deep radioactive waste disposal in France. In this rock, the proportion of water...

... as indicated in Fig. 2(a) . The higher is the moisture level, the larger is the angle α between the fracture surface and the specimen axis. deformation elasticity failure radioactive waste disposal rocks/rock mechanics The geological disposal is considered as one of the feasible...

.... clays fabric structure of soils microscopy radioactive waste disposal soft rocks strain localisation 17 07 2014 02 09 2014 20 10 2014 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2014 The hydromechanical behaviour of mudstones has been extensively investigated...

.... Figure 2 Pore size distribution curves of sample EST28518 at initial state 05 08 2014 03 09 2014 18 09 2014 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2014 clays fabric structure of soils partial saturation radioactive waste disposal rocks rock mechanics suction...

... tests radioactive waste disposal stiffness suction The small-strain shear modulus (G_{0(ij)) is the initial elastic stiffness defined on any curve of effective stress ( σ ′ i j ) versus conjugated strain εij (Pennington et al., 1997}...

... state. The total porosity of COx argillite varies between 12 and 18%. The initial water content of COx argillite varies between 5 and 9% and the water is mainly held in the clay minerals. clays laboratory tests partial saturation radioactive waste disposal soft rocks suction Much...

... rights reserved 2013 clays deformation fabric/structure of soils microscopy particle-scale behaviour radioactive waste disposal In the context of high-level radioactive waste disposal, the hydromechanical behaviour of argillite has been intensively investigated in recent decades...