Research Article
Exponential Decay of Swelling Porous Elastic Soils with
Microtemperatures Effects
Ali Rezaiguia ,
1,2
Salah Zitouni ,
2
and Hasan Nihal Zaidi
1
1
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Ha’il, Ha’il 2440, Saudi Arabia
2
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Mouhamed Cherif Messadia University, Souk Ahras, Algeria
Correspondence should be addressed to Ali Rezaiguia; ali_rezaig@yahoo.fr
Received 11 March 2023; Revised 17 April 2023; Accepted 4 May 2023; Published 13 June 2023
Academic Editor: Genni Fragnelli
Copyright © 2023 Ali Rezaiguia et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
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In this article, we considered the one-dimensional swelling problem in porous elastic soils with microtemperatures efects in the
case of fuid saturation. First, we showed that the system is well-posed in the sens of semigroup. Ten, we constructed a suitable
Lyapunov functional based on the energy method and we proved that the dissipation given only by the microtemperatures is
strong enough to provoke an exponential stability for the solution irrespective of the wave speeds of the system.
1. Introduction
In [1], Eringen developed a continuum theory for a mixture
consisting of three components: an elastic solid, viscous
fuid, and gas. Also, the author obtained the feld equations
for a heat-conducting mixture. In the theory of mixtures, the
great abstraction was extended by assuming that the con-
stituents of a mixture could be modeled as superimposed
continua, for that each point in the mixture was simulta-
neously occupied by a material point of each constituent. A
brief description concerning the details of the historical
development/review related to the general theory of the
mixtures is given by Bedford and Drumheller in [2].
Swelling porous media have been studied in many
disparate felds including soil science, hydrology, forestry,
geotechnical, chemical, and mechanical engineering, and
this is due to its prevalence in nature and modern tech-
nologies. In this article, we focused on the asymptotic
behavior of swelling soils that belong to the porous media
theory in the case of fuid saturation. Swelling soils contain
clay minerals that change volume with water content
changes that result in major geological hazards and ex-
tensive damage worldwide. Te swelling soils are caused by
the chemical attraction of water, where water molecules
are incorporated in the clay structure in between the clay
plates separating and destabilizing the mineral structure.
Te swelling clay particles have the property of forming
a unit (particle) from lattice hydrated aluminum and
magnesium silicate minerals. Tus, the clay’s particle is
a mixture of clay platelets and adsorbed water (vicinal
water). Such a particle can be thought to defne a mesoscale
which is large compared to platelet, but small compared to
the soil itself. A proper description of the mesoscale system
behavior is critical when modeling consolidation of
a swelling clay soil. As pointed out by Eringen [1], this
system is the prototype for difusion type models in
swelling soils ([3–5]).
As established by Ies ¸an [6] and simplifed by Quintanilla
[7] (see also [8, 9]), the basic feld equations for the linear
theory of swelling porous elastic soils are mathematically
given by the following equation:
ρ
z
z
tt
� H
x
− P
2
+ F
2
, ρ
u
u
tt
� T
x
+ P
1
+ F
1
, (1)
where the constituents z and u represent the displacement of
the fuid and elastic solid material. Te parameters ρ
u
and ρ
z
are the densities of each constituent which are assume to be
strictly positive constants. T and H are the partial tensions,
F
1
and F
2
are the external forces, and P
1
and P
2
are internal
body forces associated with the dependent variables u and z.
Here, we assume that the constitutive equations of partial
tensions are given as in [6] by the following equation:
Hindawi
Journal of Mathematics
Volume 2023, Article ID 6013085, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6013085