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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics Année : 2020

Magnitude of latent heat in thermally loaded clays

Sergio Samat
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Laurent Brochard
Ioannis Stefanou

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Temperature changes are known to induce specific couplings in clay, in particular, an anomalously high thermal pressurization in undrained conditions, or a thermal compaction in drained conditions, both of which are potential threats for the mechanical stability and sealing capacity of the geomaterials. Thermodynamical analysis of those peculiar thermo-mechanical couplings points to a potentially important latent energy which in turn could limit the temperature change upon heating or cooling. The direct measurement of latent energy developed during a laboratory geomechanical test is challenging. Instead, proper identification of thermal hardening in conventional experiments with temperature changes provides an alternative route to estimate latent energy. In this work, existing laboratory thermomechanical tests of clays are analyzed with a rigorous thermodynamic framework to quantify the magnitude of latent energy in thermo-mechanically loaded clays. A thermodynamically consistent constitutive model for fully saturated clays that combines two key features: i) the temperature dependence of the blocked energy and ii) the framework of bounding plasticity, is proposed. The performance of the model is validated by reproducing results obtained in laboratory tests for Boom and Opalinus clays. The thermomechanical loads considered to validate the model performance, were then used to estimate the percentage of work that remains latent in the clayey material during plastic yielding. We find that the magnitude of latent energy is quite significant, typically a few tens of percent of the total dissipated energy, and increases significantly with temperature. Accordingly, it is expected to play an important role in the thermo-mechanical response of clays.
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hal-03170517 , version 1 (16-03-2021)

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Sergio Samat, Laurent Brochard, Ioannis Stefanou. Magnitude of latent heat in thermally loaded clays. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2020, 44 (14), pp.1926-1957. ⟨10.1002/nag.3114⟩. ⟨hal-03170517⟩
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