Applied Micromechanics of Porous Materials (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 480)

Poromechanics is the mechanics of porous materials and is now a well established field in many engineering disciplines, ranging from Civil Engineering, Geophysics, Petroleum Engineering to Bioengineering. However, a rigorous approach that links the physics of the phenomena at stake in porous materials and the macroscopic behaviour is still missing. This book presents such an approach by means of homogenization techniques. Rigorously founded in various theories of micromechanics, these up scaling techniques are developed for the homogenization of transport properties, stiffness and strength properties of porous materials. The special feature of this book is the balance between theory and application, providing the reader with a comprehensive introduction to state-of-the-art homogenization theories and applications to a large range of real life porous materials: concrete, rocks, shales, bones, etc. Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Transport in Porous Media: Upscaling by Multiscale Asymptotic Expansions....Pages 3-56 Micromechanical Analysis of Saturated Porous Media with Local Mass Exchange Phenomenon....Pages 57-81 Diffusive transport in disordered media. Application to the determination of the tortuosity and the permeability of cracked materials.....Pages 83-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Poroelasticity and strength of fully or partially saturated porous materials....Pages 109-152 Poroelasticity and damage theory for saturated cracked media....Pages 153-186 Modeling of Plastic Deformation of Saturated Porous Materials: Effective Stress Concept....Pages 187-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Experimental Microporomechanics....Pages 207-288 Microelasticity of Bone....Pages 289-331 Poromechanics is the mechanics of porous materials and is an established field in many engineering disciplines. This book aims to present an approach that links the physics of the phenomena in porous materials and the macroscopic behaviour. It also presents an introduction to homogenization theories to a range of real life porous materials.