A heuristic model inversion for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of triaxial experiments

Lin, Jack; Sari, Mustafa; Alevizos, Sotiris; Veveakis, Manolis; Poulet, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.103278

A heuristic model inversion for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of triaxial experiments

Journal Article · Wed Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Computers and Geotechnics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.103278· OSTI ID:1801286

Lin, Jack ^[1]; Sari, Mustafa ^[2]; Alevizos, Sotiris ^[3]; Veveakis, Manolis ^[4]; ^[2]

Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia); OSTI
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Kensington WA (Australia)
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)

As multiphysics geomechanical models get developed, their increasing complexity and number of parameters make it particularly difficult to calibrate against experimental data. In this contribution, we present a heuristic workflow to invert for parameters of a coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) model in a way that helps the theoretical modellers refine their definition of the underlying elasto-visco-plastic model itself. We apply this workflow to the calibration of deviatoric and volumetric data for two sets of triaxial experiments on mudstone and sandstone. Here, we show that beyond the calibration of well-defined parameters of the THM model, one or two scaling factors of the experimentally obtained yield surface and two more factors to capture the confinement and pore pressure dependency of the flow law lead to the satisfactory matching of series of experiments at varying confinements for two different rock types. Using this physical model, we also show that tracking the volumetric component of the mechanical power in the numerical simulations might allow reducing the number of experiments required to calibrate the model.

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Research Organization:: Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Australian Research Council (ARC); USDOE; USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

Grant/Contract Number:: NE0008746

OSTI ID:: 1801286

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1777558

Journal Information:: Computers and Geotechnics, Journal Name: Computers and Geotechnics Journal Issue: C Vol. 117; ISSN 0266-352X

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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