ABSTRACT
In this chapter, two selected subjects on recent advances in geomechanics are presented: the thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled problem and the seepage-deformation coupled analysis of unsaturated soil.
10.1 THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL COUPLED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
In this section, we develop a thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled ‰nite element method by considering the conservation of energy in addition to the soil-water coupled ‰nite element method. Biot’s (1956) theory of porous media is adopted to give the governing equations for the soil-water coupling problem presented in Chapter 2.
