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Coordinator |
SVENSK KARNBRANSLEHANTERING AKTIEBOLAG
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Sweden [SE] |
Project website | http://beacon-h2020.eu/ |
Total cost | 4˙051˙777 € |
EC max contribution | 3˙804˙205 € (94%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-Euratom-1.2. (Contribute to the development of solutions for the management of ultimate nuclear waste) |
Code Call | NFRP-2016-2017-1 |
Funding Scheme | RIA |
Starting year | 2017 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-06-01 to 2021-05-31 |
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The overall objective of the project is to develop and test the tools necessary for the assessment of the hydro-mechanical evolution of an installed bentonite barrier and its resulting performance. This will be achieved by cooperation between design and engineering, science and performance assessment. The evolution from an installed engineered system to a fully functioning barrier will be assessed. One of the challenges is to take into account initial heterogeneities introduced in the system by conception with a combination of block and pellets or due to the size of the bentonite component (several 100 m3). It will require a more detailed understanding of material properties, of the fundamental processes that lead to homogenisation, of the role of scale effects and improved capabilities for numerical modelling. The goal is to verify the performance of current designs for buffers, backfills, seals and plugs. The overall driver for the project is the assessment cases that will be defined at the onset of the project (WP1). The quantitative models currently available are not fully able to represent all the complexities of the evolution of an installed bentonite. A substantial effort is needed to improve both the conceptual approaches and the numerical solutions in the current models (WP3). The updated/newly developed models need to be tested and verified using available data (WP5). There are some areas where fundamental data and the understanding of materials are incomplete. An efficient experimental programme will support model development and testing (WP4). There is already a large database from experiments performed within EC projects and national programmes, both laboratory and Underground Research Laboratory (URL) experiments. Many of the tests have been performed with other purposes in mind, but the results can be used in the Beacon project. The objective of WP2 is to collect the relevant information and process it to a level where it can be used in this project
D8.4 Minutes from first annual meeting | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:12 |
D7.4 Publication plan | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D5.1.1 Specifications of verification/validation test cases - geometry, characteristics of the materials, measures | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D7.1 Website for public and partner use | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D2.1 Initial Workshop | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:12 |
D2.2 Identification of relevant data/models | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:12 |
D8.1 Data Management Plan (DMP) | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D7.2 Project presentation. | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D8.3 Minutes from Kick off meeting | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:12 |
The first EARB review | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:12 |
D6.1 Scoping of the Beacon project, initial CS perspectives and enhanced work plan for years 2-4 (Month 11, revised M24) | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D1.1 State of the art report | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
EARB first annual project review | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:12 |
D8.12 Proceedings from Initial Workshop | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D8.2 Communication plan | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D1.2 Final workshop | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D7.3 Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results (PEDR). | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D7.5 Training Course | Other | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D5.2.1 Specifications of large scale experiments tests from task 5.2 | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 00:22:11 |
D8.5 Minutes from second annual meeting | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 14:54:33 |
D4.1/2 - Bentonite mechanical evolution – experimental work for the support of model development and validation | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 13:50:41 |
5.3.1 Specifications of predictive test cases from task 5.3 | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 13:51:25 |
D5.1.2 Synthesis of the results obtain of test cases from task 5.1 | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 13:51:07 |
D3.1 Description of the constitutive models available at the start of the Beacon project | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 14:55:16 |
D3.2 Description of improved constitutive models and their implementation and verification | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 14:56:19 |
EARB second annual project review report | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 14:54:52 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of Beacon deliverables.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2018 |
MarÃa Victoria Villar, Rubén J Iglesias, José Luis GarcÃa-Siñeriz State of the in situ Febex test (GTS, Switzerland) after 18 years: a heterogeneous bentonite barrier published pages: 1-13, ISSN: 2051-803X, DOI: 10.1680/jenge.17.00093 |
Environmental Geotechnics | 2020-04-09 |
2020 |
MarÃa Victoria Villar, Rubén Javier Iglesias, José Luis GarcÃa-Siñeriz, Antonio Lloret, Fernando Huertas Physical evolution of a bentonite buffer during 18 years of heating and hydration published pages: 105408, ISSN: 0013-7952, DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.105408 |
Engineering Geology 264 | 2020-04-09 |
2018 |
Haiquan Sun, David MaÅ¡Ãn, Jan Najser, Vilém NedÄ›la, Eva Navrátilová Bentonite microstructure and saturation evolution in wetting–drying cycles evaluated using ESEM, MIP and WRC measurements published pages: 1-14, ISSN: 0016-8505, DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.17.p.253 |
Géotechnique Published August 28, 2018 | 2020-04-09 |
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