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International audience; This paper presents a numerical study that aims to compare the behavior of the segmental tunnel lining using the direct, indirect and experimental methods. This model is based on a practical case applied in university of Tongji: a project of water conveyance tunnel. A reduction in the bending moment and increasing of the displacement in the tunnel lining is showed in numerical results, when taking into account the effect of the joints. It has been shown that the number of joints in the tunnel-lining structure highly affects the results in terms internal forces and displacements. Furthermore, the internal forces obtained by the continuous method are high compared to the other methods when the effects on segmental joints on tunnel lining behaviour are usually considered. Additionally, the bending moment of the direct method with behaviour of rotation spring linear and experimental method is comparable.

International audience; In order to provide a physical interpretation of the variation of the mechanical properties of Callovo-Oxfordian argillite with mineral composition, we implement three linear homogenization schemes. The argillite is modeled as a three phase material composed of a clay matrix and inclusions of quartz and calcite. It is shown that, unlike the dilute scheme and the self-consistent scheme, the Mori-Tanaka model describes the in situ experimental data well. The determined properties are finally used in a finite element computation. The aim is to evaluate the effect of mineral composition on the elastic response of the excavation of a vertical shaft in the context of the underground laboratory of Meuse/Haute Marne.

International audience; The question of the nonlinear response of brittle materials undergoing elastic damage is investigated here. Owing to the specific nature of microcracking, the macroscopic behaviour of these materials is complex, generally anisotropic owing to the possible preferential orientation of defects and multilinear because of the unilateral effect due to the transition between open and closed state of microcracks. A new three-dimensional macroscopic model outlined by Welemane and Cormery [1] has been proposed to account simultaneously for these both aspects. This paper intends to present in details the principles of such approach and to demonstrate its applicability to a stress-based framework. Based on a fabric tensor representation of the damage density distribution, the model provides a continuum and rigorous description of the contribution of defaults which avoids classical spectral decompositions and related inconsistencies. The model is also strongly micromechanically motivated, especially to handle the elastic moduli recovery that occurs at the closure of microcracks. The macroscopic theoretical framework proposed constitutes a general approach that leads in particular to predictions of a class of micromechanical models. The capacities of the approach are illustrated and discussed on various cases of damage configurations and opening–closure states, with a special attention to the differences with the strain-based framework and to the influence of the damage variables order.

International audience; This paper presents an application of a micromechanical model to the analysis of cavity excavation in heterogeneous rocks by taking into account influences of mineralogical compositions. The Callovo-Oxfordian argillite is considered here in the context of feasibility studies for geological storage of nuclear waste storage. Based on the microstructural analysis, a micromechanical model is first proposed using nonlinear homogenization techniques for heterogeneous materials. The argillite is seen as a three phase composite with elastoplastic clay matrix, elastic damaged calcite grains and elastic quartz grains. Using the proposed model, the variations of elastic and plastic properties of material with mineralogical compositions at different depths are systematically taken into account. Comparisons between experimental data and model's predictions are presented. The proposed model, implemented into a finite element computation code, is finally applied to the analysis of excavation of a vertical shaft.

The present study is devoted to the development and validation of a nonlinear homogenization approach of the mechanical behavior of Callovo-Oxfordian argillites. The material is modeled as an heterogeneous composite composed of an elastoplastic clay matrix and of linear elastic or elastic damage inclusions. The macroscopic constitutive law is obtained by adapting the incremental method proposed by Hill [Hill, R., 1965. Continuum micro-mechanics of elastoplastic polycrystals. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 13, 89–101]. The approach consists in formulating the macroscopic tangent operator of the material by considering the nonlinear local behavior of each phase. Due to the matrix/inclusion morphology of the microstructure of the argillite, a Mori–Tanaka scheme is considered for the localization step. The developed model is first compared to Finite Element calculations and then validated and applied for the prediction of the macroscopic stress–strain responses of argillites.

International audience; In this paper, we present some basic elements of macroscopic modelling of damage. We then recall the general approach of continuum damage based on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes and its application to isotropic damage modelling. The study of damage induced anisotropy is treated by considering a second order tensorial damage variable. Finally, we present an original macroscopic approach through which is addressed the question of unilateral effects due to the microcracks closure.

This study deals with the macroscopic modelling of the mechanical behaviour of microcracked materials and particularly with the unilateral aspect of such damage which leads, at the closure of microcracks, to a partial damage deactivation. By means of a micromechanical analysis, the aim of this article is first to point out the influence of the opening–closure of microdefects on the effective elastic properties of a microcracked medium. According to these considerations,a new elastic moduli recovery condition at damage deactivation is proposed. The introduction of this condition within the anisotropic damage model proposed by Halm and Dragon, 1996 allows its micromechanical background to be extended while preserving its main advantages, in particular the continuity of the stress–strain response and the symmetry of the stiffness tensor.

The present study is devoted to the development and validation of a non-linear homogenization approach of the mechanical behavior of Callovo-Oxfordian argillites. The material is modelled as an heterogeneous one composed of an elastoplastic clay matrix and of linear elastic or elastic damage inclusions. The macroscopic constitutive law is obtained by adapting the Hill-type incremental method [1]. The approach consists in formulating the macroscopic tangent operator of the material from the non-linear local behavior of its phases. Due to the matrix/inclusion morphology of the microstructure of the argillites, a Mori-Tanaka scheme is considered for the localization step. The developed model is first compared to Finite-Elements calculations and then validated and applied for the prediction of the macroscopic stress-strain responses of argillites.

International audience; A three-dimensional model of damage by microcrack growth is proposed to account for the mechanical behavior of quasi brittle materials (especially for concrete and rocks). The emphasis is put on the induced anisotropy and on the elastic moduli dependence on the opening and closure of microcracks (unilateral effect). This formulation is based first on a damage characterization throught the microcracked density distribution, and secondly avoids the use of spectral decompositions generally adopted in literature and which induce some major inconsistencies.

The concern here is the macroscopic modeling of the brittle damage unilateral effect (due to the opening-closure of microcracks). Several formulations have been proposed in recent years to solve the problems pointed out by Chaboche (Int. J. Damage Mech. 1 (1992) 148). In this paper, we examine precisely two of these new formulations (Int. J. Damage Mech. 2 (1993) 311; Int. J. Damage Mech. 5 (1996) 384) and show that they still exhibit some major inconsistencies.