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effectivestresslaw.hh File Reference

Effective stress are used to describe the actual stresses acting on the grains/matrix in the soil. Furthermore, they determine the behaviour of the soil. Most of the geomechanical laws are written in terms of effective stresses, such as the poroelastic model in dumux/geomechanics/poroelastic/model.hh. More...

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Description

Effective stresses are denoted with \( \boldsymbol{\sigma_{\mathrm{eff}}} \). The effective stress tensor \( \boldsymbol{\sigma_{\mathrm{eff}}} \) is determined by the stress tensor \( \boldsymbol{\sigma} \) , the effective pore pressure \( p_{\mathrm{eff}} \) and the Biot's coefficient \( \alpha \) :

\[ \boldsymbol{\sigma_{\mathrm{eff}}} = \boldsymbol{\sigma} - \alpha p_{\mathrm{eff}} \mathbf{I} \]

Note
The implementations of the effective stress laws are inside the folders of their respective discretization.
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