Analysis of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils based on theory of mixtures I
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- 作者：Bing Qin ; Zheng-han Chen ; Zhen-dong Fang ; Shu-guo Sun ; Xiang-wei Fang and Ju Wang
- 关键词：unsaturated soil ; thermo ; hydro ; mechanical ; temperature ; theory of mixtures
- 刊名：Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
- 出版时间：December 2010
- 出版年：2010
- 期刊代码：5_02534827
- 类别：ch
- 卷：31
- 期：12
- 页码：1561-1576
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
This paper analyzes a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils based on the theory of mixtures. Unsaturated soil is considered as a mixture composed of soil skeleton, liquid water, vapor, dry air, and dissolved air. In addition to the mass and momentum conservation equations of each component and the energy conservation equation of the mixture, the system is closed using other 37 constitutive (or restriction) equations. As the change in water chemical potential is identical to the change in vapor chemical potential, a thermodynamic restriction relationship for the phase transition between pore water and pore vapor is formulated, in which the impact of the change in gas pressure on the phase transition is taken into account. Six final governing equations are given in incremental form in terms of six primary variables, i.e., three displacement components of soil skeleton, water pressure, gas pressure, and temperature. The processes involved in the coupled model include thermal expansions of soil skeleton and soil particle, Soret effect, phase transition between water and vapor, air dissolution in pore water, and deformation of soil skeleton.