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Vardon, P.J. (author), Aguilar Lopez, J.P. (author), Dieudonné, A.A.M. (author)Soil-atmosphere interaction occurs frequently in most geotechnical situations. By including it in analyses, a high computational load can occur, and analyses are made more complex. This paper explores the key processes and demonstrates the impact and advantages of quantifying soil-atmosphere interactions. Possibilities of utilising the soil...conference paper 2023
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Beernink, S.T.W. (author), Hartog, Niels (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Bloemendal, Martin (author)The technical and economic success of an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system depends strongly on its thermal recovery efficiency, i.e. the ratio of the amount of energy that is recovered to the energy that was injected. Typically, conduction most strongly determines the thermal recovery efficiency of ATES systems at low storage...journal article 2023
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Luo, W. (author), Kottsova, A. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Dieudonné, A.A.M. (author), Brehme, M. (author)In geothermal projects, reinjection of produced water has been widely applied for disposing wastewater, supplying heat exchange media and maintaining reservoir pressure. Accordingly, it is a key process for environmental and well performance assessment, which partly controls the success of projects. However, the injectivity, a measure of how...review 2023
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Mohsan, M. (author), Vossepoel, F.C. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author)Different data assimilation schemes such as the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF), ensemble smoother (ES) and ensemble smoother with multiple data assimilation (ESMDA) are implemented in a hydro-mechanical slope stability analysis. For a synthetic case, these schemes assimilate displacements at the crest and the slope to estimate strength and...journal article 2023
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Zheng, X. (author), Seaid, Mohammed (author), Pisano, F. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Huvaj, Nejan (author), Osman, Ashraf S. (author)A hybrid material point/finite volume method for the numerical simulation of shallow water waves caused by large dynamic deformations in the bathymetry is presented. The proposed model consists of coupling the nonlinear shallow water equations for the water flow and a dynamic elastoplastic system for the seabed deformation. As a constitutive...journal article 2023
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Mohsan, M. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Vossepoel, F.C. (author)Data assimilation methods have been implemented on a slope stability problem, and the performance of different constitutive models and data assimilation schemes has been investigated. In the first part, a data assimilation scheme called the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is implemented using a finite element model (FEM) and its performance with...conference paper 2023
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Li, Jianguo (author), Wang, Bin (author), Wang, Di (author), Zhang, Pei (author), Vardon, P.J. (author)Aiming at modelling the mechanical behaviour of soil-rock mixtures accurately and efficiently, a coupled MPM-DEM formulation combining the material point method (MPM) and the discrete element method (DEM) is proposed. It is solved concurrently via the contact force linking the two individual methods. Specifically, the soil is modelled with...journal article 2023
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Liaudat, J. (author), Dieudonné, A.A.M. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author)Geological Disposal Facilities (GDF) for radioactive waste will generally rely on clay-rich materials as a host geological formation and/or engineered barrier. Gas will be produced within the GDF, which can build up significant gas pressure and will activate the migration of gas through the clay materials via different transport mechanisms....journal article 2023
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Golchin, A. (author), Guo, Y. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Liu, S. (author), Zhang, G. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)The coupling effect of initial shear stress and thermal cycles on the thermomechanical behaviour of clay concrete and sand-concrete interfaces has been studied. A set of drained monotonic direct shear tests was conducted at the soil-concrete interface level. Samples were initially sheared to half of the material's shear strength and then they...journal article 2023
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Guo, Y. (author), Golchin, A. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author), Liu, Songyu (author), Zhang, Guozhu (author), Vardon, P.J. (author)The effect of temperature on the monotonic and cyclic shearing response of a soil–structure interface is of critical importance for the application of thermal-active geo-structures. To investigate this, soils and soil–concrete interfaces were comprehensively tested with a temperature-controlled direct shear device under both fixed...journal article 2023
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Do, Phuong Chinh (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Gonzalez Acosta, J.L. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)The material point method (MPM) is gaining an increasing amount of attention due to its capacity to solve geotechnical problems involving large deformations. Large deformations in geotechnics usually involve the failure process and therefore dynamic analyses are often carried out. However, simulating the (infinite) continuous domain using...conference paper 2023
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Kulshreshtha, Y. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Meesters, G.M.H. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Mota, Nelson (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author)The water-resistance of cow-dung has made it a widely used stabiliser in traditional earthen structures in several Asian and African countries. Multiple studies have shown an improvement in water-resistance with the addition of cow-dung, but none provides insight into this behaviour. The present study investigates the water-resistance behaviour...journal article 2022
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- Chandan Malagar, B.R. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Dieudonné, A.A.M. (author) poster 2022
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Luo, W. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Cox, Barbara (author), Dieudonné, A.A.M. (author)and boundary connected with aquifer respectively, are discussed. On the basis of these two boundary conditions, several factors that influence the fluid loss process are studied. For the thief zone with no-flow boundary, our key conclusions illustrate that once the pressure front reaches an opening in the sealing, fluid loss occurs. However,...abstract 2022
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van Esch, M.S. (author), Bloemendal, Martin (author), Hartog, Niels (author), Vardon, P.J. (author)Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is mostly used to store heat and cold in groundwater at relatively low temperatures for heating and cooling buildings. These systems emit 3-4 times less CO2 when compared to gas heating, but still require substantial amounts of electricity to run due to the use of a heat pump ( 60%). In typical ATES systems...abstract 2022
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Kolah Kaj, P. (author), Abels, H.A. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Kwee, Jasper (author), Buik, Nick (author), de Vries, Sjoukje (author), Drury, Martyn (author), van Eindthoven, Wijnand (author)The ambition is to significantly enhance the knowledge, mapping, and prediction of the geological character of Dutch geothermal plays, focussing on thermal and geomechanical properties. The aim is to improve fundamental understanding of the geological causes behind rock properties, the understanding and quantification of the conversion of...abstract 2022
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Vardon, P.J. (author), Laumann, S.J. (author), Schmiedel, T. (author), Vargas Meleza, L. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author), Abels, H.A. (author), Drijkoningen, G.G. (author), Dieudonné, A.A.M. (author), Beernink, S.T.W. (author), van den Berg, J.J. (author)The multi-purpose research borehole at the Delftse Hout is the third of four seismic monitoring locations of the seismic monitoring network for the geothermal research project on the TU Delft campus (Geothermal Delft GTD, also known as DAPwell, https://geothermiedelft.nl/). For the geothermal research project, two deep wells (“a doublet”...report 2022
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Kulshreshtha, Y. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Du, Y. (author), Habert, G. (author), Vissac, A. (author), Morel, J.C. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Mota, Nelson (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author)Earthen construction is re-gaining popularity as an ecological and economical alternative to contemporary building materials. While building with earth offers several benefits, its performance due to water ingress is a concern for its widespread application. This limitation is often solved by adding chemical stabilisers such as Portland cement...journal article 2022
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Zheng, X. (author), Pisano, F. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)The Material Point Method (MPM) has been gaining increasing popularity as an appropriate approach to the solution of coupled hydro-mechanical problems involving large deformations. This study extends the implicit GIMP-patch method for coupled poroelastic problems recently proposed by Zheng et al. (2021b) to tackle large-deformation problems...journal article 2022