Welcome to the Damage Poromechanics Laboratory.

Our research involves...

  • Damage and healing modeling in rock and cement-based materials
  • Multi-scale modeling of Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical processes in porous and granular media

    • ...with most applications in Energy Geotechnics: nuclear waste disposals, carbon dioxide sequestration, high-pressure gas storage, hydraulic fracturing

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    OUR FAVORITE RESEARCH PICTURES

    • DeeP MeLT in Atlanta, January 2013

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    • Prediction of the degree of saturation in damaged geomaterials

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    • Modeling damage and healing in salt rock

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    • FEM Modeling of hydraulic fracturing

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    • Differential Stress Induced Damage (DSID) model

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    • Crack Opening and Closure under Thermo-Mechanical Stresses

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    • Multi-scale damaged permeability model

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    • Modeling Particle Crushing and Sieving

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    Calendar

    • Jun. 19-22, 2013: Workshop on "Heterogeneities across scales in geomechanics" at the California Institute of Technology
    • Jun. 10-13, 2013: NSF Proposal Writing Meeting: Deformation Experimentalists at the Frontier Of Rock and Mineral research
    • May 16-31, 2013: Collaborative research at the University of Alaska
    • May 7, 2013: Sowers Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
    • Mar. 17-24, 2013: Collaborative research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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    News

    • Hao defended his Ph.D. Proposal
    • Cheng passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam
    • Welcome Esmaeel to the DeeP MeLT
    • The DeeP MeLT in EMI Newsletter!
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