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*MOISTURE SWELLING
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.

Product: ABAQUS/Standard  

Type: Model data

Level: Model  

Reference:
There are no parameters associated with this option.

Data lines to define moisture-driven swelling: 

First line:

  1. Volumetric moisture swelling strain, .

  2. Saturation, . This value must lie in the range .

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define the – relationship from to in increasing values of .