Short description Physical Mechanics of Porous Solids addresses the physics and mechanics of deformable porous materials, whose porous space is filled by one or several fluid mixtures interacting with the solid matrix. Thermodynamics, as a common language to both solid mechanics and physical chemistry, is used as a framework to the discussion of this topic, in order to bridge the gap between these two readerships, and as such the book begins with a solid review of thermodynamics of deformable solids. The material is organized in such a way that individual phases are explored, followed by coupled problems of increasing complexity. Key aspects are looked in to one at a time, allowing the reader to build a solid understanding of the physical processes occurring in the fluids and then porous solids.
From the contents Foreword
1 The Strange World of Porous Solids
2 Fluid Mixtures
2.1 Chemical potential
2.2 Gibbs-Duhem Equality
2.3 Ideal Mixtures
2.4 Regular Solutions
3 The Deformable Porous Solid
3.1 Strain
3.2 Stress
3.3 Strain Work
3.4 From Solids to Porous Solids
4 The Saturated Poroelastic Solid
4.1 The Poroelastic Solid
4.2 Filling the Porous Solid
4.3 The Thermoporoelastic Solid
4.4 The Poroviscoelastic Solid
5 Fluid Transport and Deformation
5.1 Transport Laws
5.2 Coupling the Deformation and the Flow
5.3 Consolidation of a Soil Layer
6 Surface Energy and Capillarity
6.1 Physics and Mechanics of Interfaces
6.2 Capillarity in Porous Solids
6.3 Transport in Unsaturated Porous Solids
7 The Unsaturated Poroelastic Solid
7.1 Interface Stress as a Pre-Stress
7.2 Energy Balance for the Unsaturated Porous Solid
