Conference Agenda

Homogenisation in small-scale swelling tests with different water inflow rates

Ann Dueck¹, Daniel Malmberg¹, Patrik Sellin²

¹Clay Technology Lund AB, Sweden; ²Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB), Sweden

Cross-scale assessment of the hydromechanically coupled behavior of two German bentonites

Antonia Nitsch¹, Ali Asaad², Katja Emmerich², Torsten Wichtmann¹, Wiebke Baille¹

¹Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; ²Institute of Concrete Structures and Building Materials (IMB/MPA/CMM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of bentonite using a double-porous hypoplastic bentonite model in OpenGeoSys/MFront: implementation, verification and validation

Tymofiy Gerasimov¹, Eric Simo^1,2, Thomas Nagel², Christoph Lehmann³, David Masin⁴, Tomas Krejci⁵, Jaroslav Kruis⁵, Thomas Helfer⁶, Alexandru Tatomir⁷

¹BGE TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Germany; ²TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany; ³Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany; ⁴Charles University, Czech Republic; ⁵Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic; ⁶CEA, DES, IRESNE, DEC, France; ⁷BGE mbH, Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal, Germany

Modelling the Full Scale Heater Experiment: Results of the international Benchmark Project DECOVALEX

Bastian Johannes Graupner¹, Kate Thatcher², Rebecca Newson², Michael Pitz³, Jan Thiedau³, Sonja Kaiser⁴, Thomas Nagel⁴, Luca Urpi⁵, Peng-Zhi Pan⁶, Wenbo Hou⁶, Larissa Friedenberg⁷, Taehyun Kim⁸, Chan-Hee Park⁹, Changsoo Lee⁸, Jonny Rutqvist¹⁰, Ruiping Guo¹¹, Teklu Hadgu¹², Edward Matteo¹²

¹Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI), Brugg, Switzerland; ²Quintessa Ltd, Warrington, UK; ³Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hanover, Germany; ⁴Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany; ⁵CSD, Aarau, Switzerland; ⁶Chinese Academy of Sciences; ⁷Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH, Braunschweig, Germany; ⁸Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Daejeon, Korea; ⁹Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Daejeon, Korea; ¹⁰Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, USA; ¹¹Nuclear Waste Management Organization NWMO, Canada; ¹²Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Hierarchical benchmarking of Richards-based thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled models for repositories of high-level radioactive waste

Jörg Buchwald^1,2, Wenqing Wang¹, Norbert Grunwald¹, Thomas Nagel², Olaf Kolditz¹

¹Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany; ²Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg - TABAF, Freiberg, Germany