2014 Drucker Medal Paper: A Derivation of the Theory of Linear Poroelasticity From Chemoelasticity.

The purpose of this brief paper is to present a new derivation of Biot 's theory of linear poroelasticity (Biot, M., 1935, "Le Probleme de la Consolidation des Matieres Argileuses Sous une Charge," Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, B55, pp. 110-113; Biot, M., 1941, "General Theory of Three-Dimensional Consolidation," J. Appl. Phys., 12, pp. 155-164; and Biot, M., and Willis, D., 1957, "The Elastic Coefficients of the Theory of Consolidation," J. Appl. Mech., 24, pp. 594-601) in a modern thermodynamically consistent fashion, and show that it may be deduced as a special case of a more general theory of chemoelasticity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]