The demands on modern building materials are constantly increasing. Innovative solutions produce a multitude of binders and concretes that often have a very complex, multiscale heterogeneous composition. Multi-scale imaging of structural characteristics is still a challenge but will provide basic understanding…
This study contributes to the identification of coupled THM constitutive model parameters via back analysis against information-rich experiments. A sampling based back analysis approach is proposed comprising both the model parameter identification and the assessment of the reliability of identified…
Sand-bentonite mixtures are well recognized as buffer and sealing material in nuclear waste repository constructions. The behaviour of compacted sand-bentonite mixture needs to be well understood in order to guarantee the safety and the efficiency of the barrier construction. This paper presents numerical…