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Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour (Hardcover, New)
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Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour (Hardcover, New)
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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. What
Happens to Soil Under Weathering, Aging, and Chemical Stress?
Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour examines changes in
soil properties and behaviour caused by short- and long-term
stresses from anthropogenic activities and environmental forces.
Introducing new concepts of soil behaviour, soil maturation, and
soil functionality, it integrates soil physics, soil chemistry, and
soil mechanics as vital factors in soil engineering. The book
focuses on environmental soil behaviour, with particular attention
to two main inter-related groups of soil-environment issues. The
first is the use of soil as an environmental tool for management
and containment of toxic and hazardous waste materials. The second
is the impact of ageing and weathering processes and soil
contamination on the properties and behaviour of soils, especially
those used in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
projects. A Transdisciplinary Look at Soil-Changing Processes To
determine short- and long-term soil quality and soil functionality,
the authors emphasize the need to be aware of the nature of the
stressors involved as well as the kinds of soil-changing processes
that are evoked. This book takes a first step toward a much-needed
transdisciplinary effort to develop a broader and deeper
understanding of what happens to soil and how we can determine and
quantify the effect of biogeochemical processes. It offers a timely
resource for the study of soil properties and behaviours, effects
of environmental changes, and remediation of contaminated soil.
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