With the advent of modern microstructural testing techniques and microstructure based
constitutive models the microstructural characterisation of soils is gaining prominence. This …

The main advantage of X-ray microcomputed tomography (µCT) as a non-destructive
imaging tool lies in its ability to analyze the three-dimensional (3D) interior of a sample …

This work combines core-flood experiments with X-ray μ-computed tomography (μ-CT) to
investigate the swelling of clay minerals and its impact on permeability of unconsolidated …

Pre-compacted elements (disks, torus) of bentonite/sand mixture are candidate materials for
sealing plugs of radioactive waste disposal. Choice of this material is mainly based on its …

The paper describes a theoretical and experimental study of the coupled hydromechanical
behaviour of a compacted mixture of bentonite powder and bentonite pellets intended as …

A series of infiltration tests on a 50/50% bentonite pellets/powder mixture compacted at
different dry densities are reported and analysed. This mixture was proposed as sealing …

A specific oedometer cell has been set up to measure the swelling pressure of compacted
montmorillonites at constant volume and to concomitantly visualise the evolution, upon …

Mixtures made up of bentonite powder and pellets are a possible candidate for making
sealing plugs used in deep radioactive waste disposal due to their low permeability, high …

Pellet/powder bentonite mixture is one of the candidate materials for sealing plugs in deep
geological high-level radioactive waste disposal. This note presents an investigation on the …

As the trends in mineral processing move towards the beneficiation of finer grained and
more complex ore bodies, so too do the methods needed to understand and model these …