Consolidation around a point heat source

✍ Scribed by J. R. Booker; C. Savvidou

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 360 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0363-9061
• DOI: 10.1002/nag.1610090206

✦ Synopsis

When a heat source such as a canister of radioactive waste is buried in a saturated soil the temperature changes that occur will cause the pore water to expand a greater amount than the voids of the soil. The temperature change will thus usually be accompanied by an increase in pore pressure. If the soil is sufticiently permeable these pore pressures will dissipate. This paper develops an analytic solution for the fundamental problem of a point heat source buried deep in a saturated soil.