The Healing Process of the Joints between Buffer Material Blocks and the Influence on Solute Migration

Table 1

Value of parameters in diffusion and mechanical models.

Parameters	Parameters of diffusion models		Parameters	Parameters of mechanical models
	Values	Source		Values	Source
Initial water content	0.11	[8]	Compression index	0.133	[26]
Density of water	1000	[25]	Reference stress	1	[25]
Specific gravity of soil particles ρS	2.7	[25]	Reference specific volume N(0)	1.9	[25]
Specific heat of water	4200	[25]	Initial specific volume of joints	2.455	Calculation
Specific heat of soil particles	900	[25]	Initial specific volume of blocks	1.588	Calculation
Coefficient of permeability k0	3.51	[1, 11]	Elastic deformation index of suction	0.0244	[26]
Coefficient of permeability k1	6	[1, 11]	Elastic deformation index of suction	0.1	[26]
Reference temperature	20	Assumption	Maximum swelling force of blocks	5.83	[8]
Reference dry density	1.7	[25]	Swelling deformation parameters	5	[24]
Heat transfer coefficient	−0.5	[14]	Poisson ratio between blocks and joints u	0.3	[25]
Heat transfer coefficient	0.6	[14]	Thermal swelling coefficient	ρd × 10^−5	[27]
Heat transfer coefficient	1.07	[14]	Temperature correction factor	1.1 × 10^−3	[28]
Parameters in VG model	0.009	[9]	Parameters of cohesion	−0.5	[29]
Parameters in VG model b	1.3386	[9]	Parameters of cohesion	0.59	[29]
Parameters of suction l	2	[19]	Parameters of cohesion	0.0012	[29]
Parameters of suction σ0	1	[19]	Parameters of internal friction angle	40	[29]
Parameters of suction	0.004	[19]	Parameters of internal friction angle	25	[29]
Indoor temperature	20	Assumption	Parameters of internal friction angle	25	[29]