*MOISTURE SWELLING

Define moisture-driven swelling.

This option is used to define the moisture-driven swelling of the solid skeleton in a partially saturated porous medium. It can be used in the analysis of coupled wetting liquid flow and porous medium stress.

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Moisture swelling

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There are no parameters associated with this option.

 

Data lines to define moisture-driven swelling

First line
  1. Volumetric moisture swelling strain, εm⁢s.

  2. Saturation, s. This value must lie in the range 0.0≤s≤1.0.

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define the εm⁢s–s relationship from s=0.0 to s=1.0 in increasing values of s.