FEM Analyses for T‐H‐M‐M Coupling Processes in Dual‐Porosity Rock Mass under Stress Corrosion and Pressure Solution

Yu-Jun Zhang, Chao-Shuai Yang and Gang Xu

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2012, vol. 2012, issue 1

Abstract: The models of stress corrosion and pressure solution established by Yasuhara et al. were introduced into the 2D FEM code of thermo‐hydro‐mechanical‐migratory coupling analysis for dual‐porosity medium developed by the authors. Aiming at a hypothetical model for geological disposal of nuclear waste in an unsaturated rock mass from which there is a nuclide leak, two computation conditions were designed. Then the corresponding two‐dimensional numerical simulation for the coupled thermo‐hydro‐mechanical‐migratory processes were carried out, and the states of temperatures, rates and magnitudes of aperture closure, pore and fracture pressures, flow velocities, nuclide concentrations and stresses in the rock mass were investigated. The results show: the aperture closure rates caused by stress corrosion are almost six orders higher than those caused by pressure solution, and the two kinds of closure rates climb up and then decline, furthermore tend towards stability; when the effects of stress corrosion and pressure solution are considered, the negative fracture pressures in near field rise very highly; the fracture aperture and porosity are decreases in the case 1, so the relative permeability coefficients reduce, therefore the nuclide concentrations in pore and fracture in this case are higher than those in case 2.

Date: 2012
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