Abstract
In the context of long-term degradation of porous media, the coupling between fracture mechanics and reactive transport is investigated. A reactive transport model in a cracked discontinuous and heterogeneous porous medium is proposed. The species transport through and along the crack network are taken into account in a multibody approach. A dedicated geochemistry solver is developed and allows to take into account a significant number of chemical reactions. The model is validated via a benchmark for a porous medium without discontinuity. The applications deal with two kinds of chemical attacks in a pre-cracked concrete sample and highlight the impact of the discontinuities in the reactive transport kinetic and on the localization of the chemical degradation. The results bring out that a unidirectional descriptor, such as the depth of ingress rate, is not sufficient to describe the material degradation correctly.