Submitted by PEDRO ROGERIO CLETO null (pedro.constant@gmail.com) on 2016-06-28T20:02:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_PedroCleto_VF.pdf: 6736443 bytes, checksum: adef1b42d29662c6340d24f74ffa54ec (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-06-30T17:45:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 cleto_pr_me_bauru.pdf: 6736443 bytes, checksum: adef1b42d29662c6340d24f74ffa54ec (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-30T17:45:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cleto_pr_me_bauru.pdf: 6736443 bytes, checksum: adef1b42d29662c6340d24f74ffa54ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A técnica de fraturamento hidráulico é amplamente utilizada na indústria petrolífera para aumentar a permeabilidade da rocha-reservatório numa região próxima ao poço e permitir a extração, e consequente produção, de hidrocarbonetos armazenados em seus poros. Primeiramente a rocha é perfurada criando-se um poço e então injeta-se fluido a uma pressão suficientemente alta para fraturar a rocha. A injeção contínua de fluido permite que as fraturas se propaguem pelo reservatório, formando assim canais de alta permeabilidade. A modelagem e simulação computacional de fraturamento hidráulico são complexas em função da física envolvida no processo. O presente trabalho objetiva o estudo da formação e propagação de fraturas induzidas hidraulicamente em meios rochosos de baixa permeabilidade e também tem o propósito de verificar se a metodologia adotada é capaz de reproduzir características apresentadas num processo de fraturamento hidráulico, como a pressão necessária para causar a ruptura da rocha. Para tal, apresenta-se a técnica de fragmentação da malha utilizando elementos finitos de elevada razão de aspecto (ou elementos de interface) para representar a fratura, aos quais são atribuídas relações constitutivas baseadas na mecânica do dano. Além disso, os elementos de interface também possuem um acoplamento hidromecânico capaz de representar o canal de alta permeabilidade devido à ocorrência da fratura. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que os elementos de interface associados à técnica de fragmentação da malha foram capazes de representar tanto a formação quanto a propagação das fraturas induzidas hidraulicamente. Os resultados também mostraram que as curvas de pressão obtidas corresponderam àquelas idealizadas teoricamente. / The hydraulic fracturing technique is widely used to increase the permeability of reservoirs in the vicinity of the well and to allow the extraction and subsequent production of hydrocarbons trapped in its pores. Firstly, the rock is drilled, creating a well and then a fluid is injected at a sufficiently high pressure to fracture the rock. The continuous fluid injection allows the fractures to propagate through the reservoir, thereby forming some high permeability paths. The computer modeling and simulation of hydraulic fracturing are complex due to the physics involved in the process. This work aims to study the formation and propagation of hydraulically induced fractures in rocky media with low permeability and also aims to verify if the adopted methodology is able to reproduce the characteristics presented in a hydraulic fracturing process, as for instance, the required pressure to cause the breakdown of the rock. For this purpose, it is presented the mesh fragmentation technique using finite elements with a high aspect ratio (or interface elements) to represent the fracture, which are assigned constitutive relations based on damage mechanics. Besides, the interface elements also have a hydromechanical coupling which is able to represent the high permeability path due to the fracture. The results showed that the interface elements associated with the mesh fragmentation technique were able to represent both the formation and the propagation of hydraulically induced fractures. The results also showed that the obtained pressure curves corresponded to those theoretically idealized.

Ce travail de recherche porte sur le comportement des milieux poreux (triphasiques), plus particulièrement les sols non saturés sous sollicitations hydro-mécaniques. Un modèle constitutif élastoplastique couplé est développé. Ce modèle original est formulé selon les principes suivants: une loi constitutive est développée pour décrire le comportement de chaque phase (squelette solide, liquide, et gaz). Ensuite, des relations de couplage sont ajoutées entre chacune des phases. Pour le comportement du squelette solide, une loi élastoplastique non associée est adoptée, avec deux surfaces de charges, en cisaillement et en compression. La partie hydrique est décrite par une formulation qui permet de prendre en compte l’effet d’hystérésis. Ce modèle a été enrichi par une relation de couplage hydromécanique qui permet d’exprimer la pression d’entrée d’air en fonction de la porosité. Ensuite, le couplage complet se fait avec la contrainte effective de Bishop en utilisant une nouvelle définition du paramètre de succion χ grâce à laquelle, les différents phénomènes présents dans la réponse des milieux poreux sous différentes sollicitations peuvent être reproduits. Ce modèle est validé par une confrontation à des données expérimentales issues de la littérature sur différents types de sol (sable, limon,…). Le modèle est implanté dans le code aux éléments finis Cast3M. L’analyse de problèmes particuliers, tels que la mise en œuvre d’un cas test d’un sol d’assise soumis à un cycle pluvial, ainsi que l’étude de la stabilité d’une pente, permette de montrer la capacité du modèle à reproduire le comportement des milieux poreux non saturés. / This work focuses on the behaviour of porous triphasic media, particularly on unsaturated soils subjected to hydromechanical loading. A coupled elastoplastic constitutive model has been developed. This original model is formulated according to the following principles: (1) a constitutive law describing the behaviour of different phases (solid skeleton, liquid and gas). (2) coupling relationships between each phase. For the behaviour of the solid skeleton, a non associated elastoplastic constitutive law is adopted, with two loading surfaces: shear surface and compression cap surface. The hydric part is discribed using a formulation which allows to take into account the hysteresis effect. This model has been extended using a hydromechanical coupling relation between the air entry value and the porosity. Then the coupling is completed with the Bishop effective stress, using a new definition for the suction parameter χ. Using this formulation, the various phenomena present in the porous media behaviour under different loading can be reproduced. The developed model has been validated through a comparison with experimental data on different types of soil (sand, silt,…). This model is implemented in the french finite element code Cast3M. The analysis of specific problems, such as (1) the study of shallow foundation subjected to cyclic rain event, as well as (2) the study of slope stability, show the model capacity to reproduce the behaviour of unsaturated porous media.

Ce travail de thèse a pour objet l’étude du comportement hydromécanique endommageable des géomateriaux non saturés. Plus précisément, cette recherche est appliquée à l’étude du comportement de galeries de stockage de déchets radioactifs en formation géologique profonde. Dans un premier temps, après avoir résumé les principaux traits du comportement hydromécanique des géomateriaux, en insistant sur l’effet de la succion et de l’endommagement mécanique, un nouveau modèle PPE-NS couplant les aspects hydromécaniques, de plasticité et d’endommagement isotrope est présenté. Etabli dans le cadre de la thermodynamique des milieux poreux, il est basé sur le concept de contrainte effective plastique et de la pression interstitielle équivalente. Supposant une distribution bimodale de tailles des pores pour les milieux poreux endommagés, l'effet d'endommagement sur le comportement hydraulique est modélisé au moyen des fonctions phénoménologiques. L’endommagement intervient donc aussi bien sur le comportement mécanique qu'hydraulique dans ce modèle. La prise en compte des contributions à l’énergie des interfaces venant à la fois de l'interaction mécanique entre les phases solide et fluide (via la pression équivalente) et du mécanisme physico-chimique de rétention d'eau (via la fonction de rétention d’eau) permet à ce modèle de décrire de façon pertinente le couplage bilatéral entre elles. Dans un deuxième temps, ce modèle rhéologique est appliqué au comportement de l’argillité du Callovo-Oxfordian, qui est potentiellement la roche hôte du stockage de déchets nucléaires en France, afin d’étudier les évolutions hydromécaniques d’une galerie type selon son cycle de vie simplifié. Tout d’abord, ce modèle est validé par des essais mécaniques et hydrauliques au laboratoire, en considérant des échantillons « homogènes ». Ensuite, l’approche analytique est utilisée pour constituer une solution exacte de référence de ce problème dans un cas limite d’une roche hôte poro-viscoplastique saturée. Cette solution permet de mieux comprendre l’effet du fluage sur le comportement de la galerie et aussi de tester la fiabilité d’autres solutions numériques complexes développées par la suite. Enfin, l’approche numérique des éléments finis est mise en œuvre afin d'implémenter le nouveau modèle PPE-NS dans un code de calcul initialement développé au LGCB (Laboratoire Génie Civil et Bâtiment). Sa validité est partiellement vérifiée en considérant le comportement « limite » en photoélasticité d'une galerie non revêtue ou des solutions quasi-analytiques ont été développées. Des études paramétriques dans le cas général d'un tunnel revêtu montrent la cohérence du modèle et mettent en lumière l’influence de la désaturation sur le comportement de la galerie. / This thesis aims to study the damageable hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated geomaterials. More precisely, the research is applied to study the behavior of underground galleries of radioactive waste disposals in deep geological formations. Firstly, after summarizing the main features of the hydro-mechanical behavior of geomaterials, emphasizing the effect of suction and damage, a new model PPE-N coupling hydromechanical interactions with plasticity and isotropic damage is presented. Established in the framework of thermodynamics of porous media, it is based on the concept of the so called plastic effective stress and equivalent pore pressure. Assuming a bimodal pore size distribution for cracked porous media and using the concept of bundle cylindrical capillaries, damage effects on hydraulic behaviour (water retention curve and hydraulic conductivity) is modelled using phenomenological functions. The accountance of the contributions to the interfacial energy from the mechanical internations between solid and fluid phases (via theequivalent pore pressure) as well as the physico-chemical mechanism of water retention (via the water retention function) enables this model to describe in apertinent manner bilateral couplings between them.Secondly, this constitutive model is applied to Callovo- Oxfordian argillite, which is the potential host rock for the French nuclear waste disposal, and then to study the evolution of the hydromechanical responses of an underground gallery according to its simplified life cycle. The model is first validated against a range of mechanical and hydraulic laboratory tests, considering "homogeneous" samples. The analytical approach is then used to provide an exact reference solution of this problem in the limiting case of a saturated poro-viscoplastic host rock. This solution allows to better understand the effect of creep on the behavior of the gallery and also to test the precision of other complex numerical solutions . Finally, the numerical approach using finite elemnts is used to implement the new model EPP-NS in a computer code originally developed in LGCB (Laboratoire Genie Civil et Batiment). Its validity is partly checked by examining the poroelastic behavior of an unlined tunnel where quasi-analytical solutions have been developed. Parametric studies in the generalcase of a lined tunnel demonstrate the consistency of the model and highlight the influence of desaturation on the behavior of the gallery.

Recently observed cumulation of unexpected collapses of slope-distant waste dumps in lignite mining areas of eastern germany re-initiated research of soil liquefaction. Especially it turned the question of internal initials that correspond to water rise. Parallel to laboritory tests and field experiments a micromechanical model should be developed, which can reproduce processes in the soil during saturation. In first approximation a partly saturated soil consists of two phases: the soil particles and the pore fluid. For micromechanical modeling a coupling of discontinuum particles) and continuum (fluid) is required. The soil particles can be simulated with the Discrete-Element-Method (DEM). For the pore fluid, which is assumed to be a mixture of liquid and gaseous fractions, Pore scale model with Finite Volumes (PFV) is used. At low water content liquid bridges (meniscii) arise between the particles that cause an apparent cohesion. The effect of the meniscii is considered by a correspondingly contact law in the DEM model. During the saturation of a soil both, cohesive effect and fluid bulk modulus, are reduced. In addition buoyancy acts on the particles during the process. The micromechanical modeling approach has the advantage, that just a few model parameters are needed. The numerical model shows pore fluid pressures during saturation process, that leads to a reduction of effective stress. It is investigated how much the reduction is regarding porosity, degree of saturation, stress conditions and grain shape. Furthermore the influence of model parameters as well as hydromechanics is investigated. The investigations are completed with another series of experiments under special conditions like integration of macropores, horizontal fixed model boundaries and abrupt saturation.:Einleitung Literaturauswertung Numerische Modellierung Modellstudien Ergebnisauswertung Zusammenfassung Extended summary

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