title: Simulation of nonisothermal consolidation of saturated soils based on a thermodynamic model.
abstract: Based on the nonequilibrium thermodynamics, a thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling model for saturated soils is established, including a constitutive model without such concepts as yield surface and flow rule. An elastic potential energy density function is defined to derive a hyperelastic relation among the effective stress, the elastic strain, and the dry density. The classical linear non-equilibrium thermodynamic theory is employed to quantitatively describe the unrecoverable energy processes like the nonelastic deformation development in materials by the concepts of dissipative force and dissipative flow. In particular the granular fluctuation, which represents the kinetic energy fluctuation and elastic potential energy fluctuation at particulate scale caused by the irregular mutual movement between particles, is introduced in the model and described by the concept of granular entropy. Using this model, the nonisothermal consolidation of saturated clays under cyclic thermal loadings is simulated in this paper to validate the model. The results show that the nonisothermal consolidation is heavily OCR dependent and unrecoverable.
authors: Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. zhangzhichaopt@163.com
authors: Zhichao
authors: Z
authors: Zhang
authors: Xiaohui
authors: X
authors: Cheng
mesh_terms: D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012987:Soil; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D012987:Soil
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