ZHANG Yu-jun, XU Gang, YANG Chao-shuai. Finite element analysis of influence of fracture stiffness changing with stress on thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in dual-porosity medium[J]. 2012, 33(11).
ZHANG Yu-jun, XU Gang, YANG Chao-shuai. Finite element analysis of influence of fracture stiffness changing with stress on thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in dual-porosity medium[J]. 2012, 33(11).DOI:
Introducing and modifying the continuously yielding joint model
and simultaneously considering the composite impact of mechanical dilation/compaction and pressure solution on fracture aperture
the FEM code for analysis of the thermo-hydro- mechanical coupling in dual-porosity medium established by the first author was improved. Through the numerical simulations in which there were two patterns of changing the fracture stiffness for a hypothetical nuclear waste repository
the variations and distributions of temperatures
fracture stiffnesses
normal stresses
pore (fracture) pressures
flow velocities of groundwater were investigated. The results show: compared with the case of unchangeable fracture stiffness
the temperatures in the computing domain are lower in the case whose fracture stiffness is an exponential function of normal stress; the magnitudes of stresses within the rock mass in two cases are also some different
but the characteristics of stress distribution are similar to those of fracture stiffnesses obviously; and the negative pore (fracture) pressures in the case with changeable fracture stiffness are smallish (about 98% of case of unchangeable fracture stiffness).