ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses deformation and seepage in isothermal poroelastic tissues with a single porosity and devoid of an electric fixed charge. Emphasis is laid here on the anisotropic properties of the fluid-saturated porous media and on their identification through a minimal number of independent laboratory experiments. As an example, a simple test, namely the unconfined compression of cylindrical sample, is worked out and solved through analytical tools. The simplest setting is standard poroelasticity where a solid is circulated by a non-reacting ideal fluid: here, species and phases are one and the same.
