“Coupled hydro-chemo-mechanical instabilities in geomaterials: laboratory scale experimental analysis of phenomena occurring in CO2 geological sequestration”

The objectives of the research activity will be to reproduce at the laboratory scale the scenarios representative of the interactions between the acidic solution stored in the reservoir rock and the sealing caprock. To this purpose analog materials will be designed which will allow to carry out tests within the loading capacity of BIAX (about 1.5 MPa) being representative of the response of real shale-like geomaterials under in-situ loading conditions (hundred of MPa).
The scientific program should respect the following itemized list of tasks
– developing the experimental campaign based on oedometer tests, during the secondment period at Strathclyde University (UK);
– calibrating the upgraded experimental apparatus;
– exploiting the experimental protocol relative to the campaign to be conducted together with a Post-Doc researcher

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