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Description : Les matériaux de construction biosourcés présentent de multiples atouts, comme leur disponibilité à l’échelle locale et leurs performances fonctionnelles sur les plans mécanique, acoustique et hygrothermique. La nouvelle Règlementation Environnementale RE2020 impose la prise en compte de l’impact “pouvoir de réchauffement climatique” sur l’ensemble du cycle de vie des bâtiments. Dans ce cadre, […]

Joint PhD position at UCLouvain and Ecole des Ponts in Geomechanics Grain breakage is a common occurrence in granular media when the intergranular forces exceed the individual particle strength and is of major importance in many areas of geosciences. Experimental evidences suggest that particle breakage may significantly influence the mechanical behavior of the material promoting […]

Clay materials have been considered as potential candidate for closure structures in high-level radioactive waste repositories. In spite of several studies investigating its hydro-mechanical behaviour, the kinetics of the re-saturation process and the development of swelling pressure of clay materials, observed in the large-scale experiments during long periods (e.g. several years), can still not be […]