supported by the General Research Fund from the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong SAR,China(Grant Nos.CityU 11201020 and CityU 11207321);the National Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42207185);the Contract Research Project from the Geotechnical Engineering Office of the Civil Engineering Development Department of Hong Kong SAR,China(Project Ref.No.CEDD STD-30-2030-1-12R);the BL13W beamline of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)。
Discrete element method(DEM)has been widely utilised to model the mechanical behaviours of granular materials.However,with simplified particle morphology or rheology-based rolling resistance models,DEM failed to descr...
The financial support by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2018YFC0809601);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51779252);the Major Technological Innovation Projects of Hubei,China(Grant No.2017AAA128);the Key Projects of the Yalong River Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1865203)for this work are gratefully acknowledged。
Natural fractures are generally well developed in most hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs,which can produce complex fracture networks due to the activation of fractures during hydraulic stimulation.The present pape...
Micro-mechanical properties of a claystone were tested after undergoing alkaline perturbation on site(Tournemire,CD borehole)for 18 years.In a saturated context and outside the excavation disturbed zone(EDZ),the clays...
funded by the European Commission through the TIMODAZ project within the 6th framework programme (Contract Number: FI6W-CT-2007-036449)
Disposal of spent nuclear fuel and long lived radioactive waste in deep clay geological formations is one of the promising options worldwide. In this concept of the geological disposal system, the host clay formation ...