Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour

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Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour

Author: Raymond N. Yong | Size: 35 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Original preprint | Publisher: CRC Press | Year: 2012 | pages: 455 | ISBN: 9781439845295

Features
Introduces soil ageing as a process that affects the long-term nature of soils and their properties and behaviours
Presents the concepts of soil quality and soil functionality as tools and criteria in soil and geoenvironmental engineering
Examines the effect on soils from natural environmental forces (such as earthquakes, floods, acid rain) and anthropogenic activities (waste discharge, generation of greenhouse gases, construction and mining activities, etc.)
Discusses the mechanical, thermal, and hydraulic properties of soils and their role in the development of soil functionality
Addresses the role of soils in land disposal and containment of wastes
Explains the important interaction between soil particles and water with regards to mechanical and transfer properties, buffering capability, and storage for agricultural and drinking water
Includes more than 170 illustrations and 190 equations
Summary
From bridges and tunnels to nuclear waste repositories, structures require that soils maintain their design engineering properties if the structures are to reach their projected life spans. The same is true for earth dams, levees, buffers, barriers for landfills, and other structures that use soils as engineered materials. Yet soil, a natural resource, continues to change as a result of natural and anthropogenic stresses. As the discipline of soil properties and behaviours matures, new tools and techniques are making it possible to study these properties and behaviours in more depth.

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