Environmental geomechanics : [based on the lectures given during the Advanced Course on Environmental Geomechanics, in Udine in October 1999

Environmental Geomechanics covers a broad class of problems where deforming geomaterials are involved, usually coupled with fluid flow and transport of some substance. Transport of contaminants and other substances may occur in the fluids, e.g. water, water vapour and air, filling the pores of geomaterials as happens in waste disposal problems or durability problems. Mass transport also takes place in reservoir engineering problems, where the fluids involved are oil, water, and gas. All these aspects are addressed in this book together with a theoretical framework. Front Matter....Pages ii-vii Theoretical and Numerical Methods in Environmental Continuum Mechanics Based on the Theory of Porous Media....Pages 1-81 Isothermal Flow....Pages 83-130 Non-Isothermal Flow....Pages 131-169 Computational Plasticity....Pages 171-202 Numerical Analysis of Radioactive Waste Disposal....Pages 203-234 Modelling of subsidence due to water or hydrocarbon withdrawal from the subsoil....Pages 235-301 Environmental Chemomechanics of Concrete....Pages 303-350