{"id":14888,"date":"2024-03-01T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:50:09","slug":"ph-d-mechanics-of-swelling-clay-faults-from-molecular-simulation-to-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/ph-d-mechanics-of-swelling-clay-faults-from-molecular-simulation-to-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D.: &#8220;Mechanics of swelling clay faults from molecular simulation to earthquakes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-477667 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-388056 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-839666 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Plate boundary fault zones exhibit a wide range of dynamic behaviors, from aseismic slip to mega-earthquakes. So far, there is no consensus on a model describing the processes controlling these fault behaviors. A possible answer might lie in the properties of smectite, a swelling clay mineral that form the core of many of the fault zones and that is able to adsorb significant amounts of water in-between nanometric minerals. Despite their potential importance, the thermodynamics of hydration\/dehydration reactions in smectite and the connections between these reactions and the fault deformations, is not yet known. These fundamental questions are the heart of the ANR project SMEC funding this Ph.D. position.\u00a0This Ph.D. project focuses on the modeling of part of the SMEC project. More precisely, we propose to combine molecular simulations, granular modeling and micromechanics in order to relate the hydration\/dehydration reactions of smectites to the mechanical behavior of faults zones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PhD-SMEC_Navier_en.pdf\">See description for more d\u00e9tails.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theses-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15290,"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions\/15290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navier-lab.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}