Semianalytical Solution for Thermal Consolidation of Viscoelastic Marine Clay with the Fractional Order Derivative

Abstract

The deformation property of marine clay under a heat source has received considerable attention in the geotechnical literature. In this paper, a three-parameter fractional order derivative model is introduced into the thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling governing equations with thermal filtration and thermo-osmosis to simulate viscoelastic characteristics of marine clay. The excess pore pressure, temperature increment, and displacement of marine clay are derived by using the Laplace transform method, and the semianalytical solution for the one-dimensional thermal consolidation in the time domain is derived by using a numerical inversion of the inverse Laplace transform. The influence of the order of the fractional derivative, material parameters, and phenomenological coefficient on thermal consolidation is investigated based on the present solutions. It is shown that the influence of the fractional derivative parameter on the excess pore pressure and displacement of marine clay depends on the properties of soil mass, and the temperature increment has an obvious effect on the thermal filtration and thermo-osmosis process.