Overview
- Presents fundamental principles that underlie current and anticipated developments in geotechnical engineering
- Includes the result of a NSF Workshop on Geotechnical Fundamentals in the Face of New World Challenges held at NSF in the summer of 2016
- Documents current developments in the field and captures visions for future research
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering (SSGG)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geotechnical Fundamentals for Addressing New World Challenges
Editors: Ning Lu, James K. Mitchell
Series Title: Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06249-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06248-4Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06249-1Published: 24 May 2019
Series ISSN: 1866-8755
Series E-ISSN: 1866-8763
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 357
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Soil Science & Conservation