A continuum theory of soils: Viewed as peculiar immiscible mixtures

✍ Scribed by P. Giovine

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 743 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-7177
• DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7177(03)00045-1

✦ Synopsis

In this work, we construct an atypical continuum theory in order to describe the behaviour of soils: they have a particulate structure and fluids can seep through pores, mechanically interacting with the solid skeleton. We use a model of immiscible mixtures consisting of a porous ; elastic solid with very large lacunae (a continuum with ellipsoidal microstructure) partially, or totally, filled by a classical fluid inclusion.