This text features 105 papers dealing with the fundamentals and the applications of poromechanics from the Biot conference of 1998, held in Louvain-la-Neuve. To

Based on the Biot conference, named after Maurice Biot and held at Columbia University, this book contains over 170 original papers on different phases of porom

Modelling and predicting how porous media deform when subjected to external actions and physical phenomena, including the effect of saturating fluids, are of im

These proceedings deal with the fundamentals and applications of poromechanics to geomechanics, material sciences, geophysics, acoustics and biomechanics. They

These proceedings represent the latest advances in the mechanics of porous materials, known as poromechanics. The porous materials considered are solids contain