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Environmental Geotechnology: Meeting Challenges Through Need-based Instrumentation (Hardcover)
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Environmental Geotechnology: Meeting Challenges Through Need-based Instrumentation (Hardcover)
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The rise of rapid and uncontrolled industrialization, its alarming
levels of hazardous waste produced, and their negative contribution
to the international environmental epidemic of global warming —
in addition to the decrease in room to dispose of these wastes
safely — have put the pressure for many engineers, researchers,
and key decision-makers to find the answers to the constant tussle
between progress and sustainability — and quickly. Environmental
Geotechnology revisits existing concepts of geotechnical
engineering critically, and brings them up to date with new
knowledge and current affairs so as to better address and serve
today's needs of the professionals. It points out the role and
importance of the parameters and mechanisms that govern the
interaction of contaminants with geomaterials (soil and rock mass),
and also discusses their degradation in the long-run, and the
consequences that follow. The book starts from a engineering
philosophy that incorporates the influence of environmental effects
(both manmade and natural) on geotechnical engineering practices.
Its contents are based on geotechnical and environmental
engineering studies pertaining to waste management, such as: the
safe handling, transportation and disposal of waste, the estimation
of waste leakage into the subsurface, its consequences, methods of
containment, and the development of schemes to remediate
contaminated land. It also proposes innovative strategies for waste
management through the utilization of wastes based on a
comprehensive characterization. Modelling techniques such as
accelerated physical modelling using geotechnical centrifuge,
finite-element or difference-based numerical modelling and
physico-chemico-mineralogical modelling are discussed in this book
to enable the study of the complex (and otherwise slow) process of
contaminant-geomaterial interaction.
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