Poromechanics

Modelling and predicting how porous media deform when subjected to external actions and physical phenomena, including the effect of saturating fluids, are of importance to the understanding of geophysics and civil engineering (including soil and rock mechanics and petroleum engineering), as well as in newer areas such as biomechanics and agricultural engineering.

This book presents a novel continuum finite deformation framework addressing the complex interactions among electrostatics, species transport, and mechanics in solid networks immersed in a fluid phase of solvent and ions. Grounded on cutting-edge multiphysics theories for soft active materials, the proposed model is primarily applied to ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs).

Authors: Cheng, Alexander H.-D.
Presentation of the theory from both the intuitive physical arguments and the rigorous thermodynamics principles
A complete coverage ranging from the quasi-static theory, to the dynamic, viscoelastic, thermoelastic, and chemical effects
A comprehensive review of the related physical phenomena found in geophysics, geomechanics, soil and rock mechanics, petroleum engineering, and biomechanics
A near complete collection of closed form analytical solutions
A collection of biography of pioneers of the field

by A. P. S. Selvadurai (Author), A. P. Suvorov (Author)

The concept of effective stress and the effective stress equation is fundamental for establishing the theory of strength and the relationship of stress and strain in soil mechanics and poromechanics.