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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337606003321

Titolo

Geotechnical Fundamentals for Addressing New World Challenges / / edited by Ning Lu, James K. Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-06249-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages)

Collana

Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering, , 1866-8755

Disciplina

624.151

Soggetti

Engineering geology

Engineering—Geology

Foundations

Hydraulics

Geotechnical engineering

Geochemistry

Soil science

Soil conservation

Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics

Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

Soil Science & Conservation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

From the content: The Role of Geotechnics in Addressing New World Problems -- Geosystem Sensing and Measurement -- Soil properties: Physics Inspired, Data Driven -- Linking Soil Water Adsorption to Geotechnical Engineering Properties.

Sommario/riassunto

This single-volume thoroughly summarizes advances in the past several decades and emerging challenges in fundamental research in geotechnical engineering. These fundamental research frontiers are critically reviewed and described in details in lights of four grand challenges our society faces: climate adaptation, urban sustainability, energy and material resources, and global water resources. The specific areas critically reviewed, carefully examined, and envisioned are:



sensing and measurement, soil properties and their physics roots, multiscale and multiphysics processes in soil, geochemical processes for resilient and sustainable geosystems, biological processes in geotechnics, unsaturated soil mechanics, coupled flow processes in soil, thermal processes in geotechnical engineering, and rock mechanics in the 21st century.