EURAD Training on multiphysical couplings in geomechanics

Geomechanics plays a significant role in the understanding of the multiphysics and multiscale processes taking place in a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste. The objective of the school was to introduce state-of-the-art understanding, concepts and methods related to thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled processes, the physical impacts of thermal loading and the mechanistic understanding of gas migration in geomaterials. Results arising from the EURAD project were also integrated to the school, and a half day was dedicated to presentations by early-career researchers. A visit to the HADES Underground Research Laboratory was organised on the last day of the school.