Global warming has been recognized as one of the severe issues of global scale which should be addressed immediately. CO2 capture and storage technologies have been believed to be an expected countermeasure for reduction of the greenhouse gas rele...
Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering (191289) 81-87 2017年
The aim of this paper is to present cyclic constitutive models for sandy and clayey soils based on the kinematical hardening rule with the strain-degradation, and the applicability of the models to the practically important problem such as the of ...
Sayuri Kimoto   Toshifumi Akaki   Benjamin Loret   Fusao Oka   
Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering (191289) 125-131 2017年
Internal erosion is the detachment of fine soil particles due to seepage flow, with ensuing increasing porosity, and transport of these particles out of the soil mass. In the present study, firstly we have formulated the constitutive equations of ...
T. Akaki   S. Kimoto   F. Oka   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS 40(16) 2207-2237 2016年11月 [査読有り]
In the present study, we have developed a numerical method which can simulate the dynamic behaviour of a seabed ground during gas production from methane hydrate-bearing sediments. The proposed method can describe the chemo-thermo-mechanical-seism...
Fusao Oka   Hirokazu Yui   Sayuri Kimoto   Teppei Kinugawa   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMECHANICS 16(5) 2016年10月 [査読有り]
Nankai megathrust earthquakes are expected to occur with a return period of approximately 90-200 years along the fault of the Nankai Trough. Because they are interplate earthquakes, it is predicted that they will cause heavy liquefaction damage as...