Anh Minh Tang

TL;DR: In this paper, a new suction-temperature controlled isotropic cell that can be used to study the thermo-mechanical behavior of unsaturated expansive clays is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of a model granular assembly made of spherical balls is used to investigate the influence of a small amount of an interstitial wetting liquid, forming capillary bridges between adjacent particles, on two basic aspects of granular material rheology: (1) the plastic response in isotropic compression, and (2) the critical state under monotonic shear strain, and its generalization to steady, inertial flow.

TL;DR: In this paper, the combined effects of shear and temperature elevation were investigated in the laboratory on the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone, and it was observed that the temperature increase under undrained conditions led to a thermal increase in pore water pressure resulting in a decrease in mean effective stress that brought back the sheared specimen to failure.

TL;DR: In this article, a commercial numerical code was used to simulate the mechanical behavior of energy piles under thermo-mechanical loadings, where the thermal load was simply simulated by imposing to the pile volumetric strains calculated from the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material.

TL;DR: In this article, a physical model was developed with a 160mmthick ballast layer overlaying a 220mm-thick artificial silt layer, both layers being compacted in a transparent cylinder of a 550mm-inner diameter.