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This paper presents a study focused on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of a  plastic clay under partially saturated conditions. Clay remoulded samples were  dried using vapour transfer under one-dimensional conditions. Samples underwent  an important vertical shrinkage on drying, which progressed along more than one  week. To study the time evolution of this phenomenon, simulation aided  techniques were used to analyse the progression of suction at local scale and to  determine the time required to equilibrate homogeneously the sample. In this  case the fully coupled thermo-hydromechanical finite element code Code_Bright  [1] was used to analyse this process. The simulation adequately followed the  evolution of sample shrinkage measured experimentally. The determination of the  suction equalisation time also agreed with the experimental information

Simulation aided testing of hydro-mechanical processes on clay