Chen, Xiaohui

Leucite glass-ceramics are widely used in Dentistry, and show favourable aesthetics. Undesirable brittle failure however, is associated with uneven leucite crystal distribution, and the thermal mismatch between the glass matrix and larger leucite crystals. This thesis focuses on…

New unsaturated coupled models have been developed for fluid transport in deformable rock by using modified mixture theory rather than a fully mechanics-based approach. These models include the following: an unsaturated hydro-mechanical coupled model for both non-swelling and sw…