CHEMO-MECHANICAL COUPLING FOR MODELLING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE DISPOSAL UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES

Start date: 01/10/2021
End date: 30/09/2024
University: Université de Toulouse
Promotor: Alain Sellier, Laurie Lacarriere and Thierry Viadal

Research performed by Layla Ibrahim.

This thesis work consists of establishing a multi-physical behaviour model of reinforced concrete to simulate on a long scale time the structural behaviour of an underground tunnel subjected to mechanical loading and physiochemical degradation induced by the groundwater.

EURAD Work Packages involved

WP16 MAGIC, task 4.3 of the project ( Chemo mechanical processes in safety structures).