Editorial: Hydromechanical Instabilities in Geomaterials: Advances in Numerical Modeling and Experimental Techniques

Abstract

study of coupled hydromechanical instabilities, where the notion of mechanical instabilities is enriched 13 by the complementary (and not necessarily independent) notion of hydraulic instabilities, with a key role 14 played by interfaces and coupled hydromechanical phenomena.Geomaterials are intrinsically multi-phase, the porous network being typically saturated by a mixture of Hydromechanical Instabilities in Geomaterials et al. (2009, 2013), to explain the formation of desiccation cracks in soils, an alternate capillarity-driven 73 mechanism is proposed at the continuum scale.We hope that readers will enjoy reading the carefully selected papers on the growing and exciting research 75 area of coupled hydromechanical instabilities in geomaterials.