Moisture swelling

Moisture swelling:

  • defines the saturation-driven volumetric swelling of the solid skeleton of a porous medium in partially saturated flow conditions;

  • can be used in the analysis of coupled wetting liquid flow and porous medium stress (see Coupled pore fluid diffusion and stress analysis); and

  • can be either isotropic or anisotropic.

The following topics are discussed:

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*MOISTURE SWELLING
Defining moisture swelling

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