Define moisture-driven swelling.
This option is used to define the moisture-driven swelling of the solid skeleton in a partially saturated porous medium. It can be used in the analysis of coupled wetting liquid flow and porous medium stress.
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TypeModel data
LevelModel
Volumetric moisture swelling strain, εms.
Saturation, s. This value must lie in the range 0.0≤s≤1.0.
Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define the εms–s relationship from s=0.0 to s=1.0 in increasing values of s.