Mechanical Behaviour of a Porous Chalk and Water/Chalk Interaction. Part Ii: Numerical Modelling

Abstract

This paper is the second part of a general work on the mechanical behaviour of a porous chalk and the effect of saturating fluid. It presents the development of an elastoplastic model with two yield surfaces to describe the chalk behaviour. The water induced plastic deformation observed experimentally is described by using an additional plastic potential, based on the behaviour jump between two material states of chalk saturated with two different fluids. A good correlation is obtained between numerical simulations and experimental data obtained in the experimental study presented in the first part.