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Thermo-plasticity of fine-grained soils at various saturation states : application to nuclear waste disposal

Bertrand François

Soil is a particulate material that may undergo irreversible strain as the relative positions of the constituent particles change. That irreversible behaviour may be induced not only by an external stress variation but also by temperature or suction change ...

EPFL2008

Search for singly and pair-produced leptoquarks coupling to third-generation fermions in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Konstantin Androsov, Yi Wang, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Peter Hansen, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Wei Sun, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Federica Legger, Doohyun Kim, Bertrand François, Bandeep Singh

A search for leptoquarks produced singly and in pairs in proton-proton collisions is presented. We consider the leptoquark (LQ) to be a scalar particle of charge -1/3e coupling to a top quark plus a tau lepton (t tau) or a bottom quark plus a neutrino (b n ...

2021

Thermal variability of the internal friction in clay in a cylindrical thermo-mechanical problem

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

Variability of the internal friction angle with temperature is studied in a boundary value problem numerically simulating the impact of a cylindrical heat source on the stress and strain in soil mass in which it is emplaced. Even if the thermal increase of ...

International Center for Computational Engineering (IC2E)2011

Search for top squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Yi Wang, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Peter Hansen, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Wei Sun, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Federica Legger, Doohyun Kim, Bertrand François, Bandeep Singh

A search for production of the supersymmetric partners of the top quark, top squarks, is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision events containing multiple jets, no leptons, and large transverse momentum imbalance. The data were collected ...

American Physical Society2021

Search for the rare decay of the W boson into a pion and a photon in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A search is performed for the rare decay W-+/--> pi(+/-)gamma in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV. Data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1) were collected during 2016 to 2018 with the CMS detector. This analysis exploits a no ...

2021

Constitutive analysis of the mechanical anisotropy of Opalinus Clay

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

This paper aims to analyse the anisotropic features of behaviour of Opalinus Clay using the theory of plastic multi-mechanisms. The results of triaxial tests conducted with different load levels and directions showed that the mechanical behaviour of this s ...

Springer Verlag2013

Experimental Investigations of Temperature and Suction Effects on Compressibility and Pre-Consolidation Pressure of a Sandy Silt

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François, Simon Salager

Research interest in the thermo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils is growing as a result of an increasing number of geomechanical problems involving both thermal and unsaturated effects. In this framework, this paper addresses a unified thermo-mech ...

2008

A stress-strain framework for modeling the behaviour of unsaturated soils under non-isothermal conditions

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

This paper addresses a new, unified thermo-mechanical constitutive model for unsaturated soils through a coupled study. In the context of elastoplasticity and the critical state theory, the model uses the concepts of multimechanism and bounding surface the ...

2007

Temperature-dependent internal friction of clay in a cylindrical heat source problem

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

The effect of the temperature dependence of the internal friction angle is studied in a boundary value problem simulating the impact of a cylindrical heat source on the soil mass in which it is embedded. This follows a previous study which shows that such ...

2011

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modelling of Hollow Cylinder Laboratory Experiments on Boom Clay

Vincent Labiouse, Bertrand François

The aim of the TIMODAZ project is to investigate the effect of thermal changes on the excavation damaged zone (EDZ) around nuclear deep disposals in clay-based geological formations. In the framework of WP5.2 of this project, it is intended to develop cons ...

European Commission2012

Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

The performance is presented of the reconstruction and identification algorithms for electrons and photons with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The reported results are based on proton-proton collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and ...

2021

Explaining thermal failure in saturated clays

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

Failure conditions in soils at elevated temperatures appear to be strongly dependent on the history of the application of stress and temperature. Four cases of such history leading to various modes of failure are identified and interpreted in terms of Ther ...

2009

Analysis of the FEBEX multi-barrier system including thermo-plasticity of unsaturated bentonite

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François, Fabrice Dupray

Deep geological repository involving a multi-barrier system constitutes one of the most promising options for isolating high-level radioactive waste from the human environment. In order to certify the efficiency of waste isolation it is essential to unders ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Measurement of the W gamma Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=13 TeV and Constraints on Effective Field Theory Coefficients

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Yi Wang, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Peter Hansen, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Davide Di Croce, Arvind Shah, Wei Sun, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Federica Legger, Doohyun Kim, Bertrand François, Bandeep Singh

A fiducial cross section for W gamma production in proton-proton collisions is measured at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 137 fb(-1) of data collected using the CMS detector at the LHC. The W -> e nu and mu nu decay modes are used in a maximum-likeli ...

2021

A thermo-hydro-mechanical stress-strain framework for modeling the performance of clay barriers in deep geological repositories for radioactive waste

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, Bertrand François, Mathieu Nuth, Azad Koliji

Assessing the performance of deep geological repositories for heat-generating radioactive waste requires reliable predictions of the thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of the clay barriers (the buffer material as well as the host rock/clay). This repr ...

CRC Press2008

Hollow Cylinder Tests on Boom Clay: Modelling of Strain Localization in the Anisotropic Excavation Damaged Zone

Vincent Labiouse, Bertrand François

Boom Clay is extensively studied as a potential candidate to host underground nuclear waste disposal in Belgium. To guarantee the safety of such a disposal, the mechanical behaviour of the clay during gallery excavation must be properly predicted. In that ...

Springer Verlag2014

Non-isothermal infiltration in plastic bentonite

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

In deep geological repository involving a multi-barrier system, the engineered materials, generally made of bentonite, constitute an important mechanical, thermal and hydraulic barrier to prevent the interaction between wastes and biosphere. To better unde ...

Taylor & Francis Group2010

Constitutive modelling of the thermo-plastic behaviour of soils

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François, Cane Cekerevac

Research interest in the thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils is growing as a result of an increasing number of geomechanical problems involving thermal effects. This paper addresses various issues concerning the thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils. Start ...

2005

Numerical modelling of the hydrogeological and geomechanical behaviour of a large slope movement: The Triesenberg landslide (Liechtenstein)

Lyesse Laloui, Laurent Tacher, Bertrand François

Using advanced hydrogeological and geomechanical finite element modelling, it has been possible to model the mechanical behaviour of a large slope movement, the Triesenberg landslide. This slope is located along the Rhine valley in the Principality of Liec ...

2007

An oedometer for studying combined effects of temperature and suction on soils

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

This paper reports the development of an advanced thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) oedometer in order to characterize the behavior of soils under combined non-isothermal and unsaturated conditions. The simultaneous control of temperature, suction and stress s ...

ASTM International2010