This book contains an overview of the most relevant scientific
contributions of Gerard de Josselin de Jong to the development of
both Soil Mechanics and Transport in Porous Media. The volume
comprises a selection of papers by de Josselin de Jong as they were
published in the international scientific literature. In addition,
some unpublished, but highly relevant work has been included.
Most of the papers by de Josselin de Jong are concerned with
issues related to soil mechanics. This is not surprising,
considering the fact that he worked at Delft Soil Mechanics
Laboratory and given the nature of his chair at Delft University of
Technology. But occasionally he made an excursion to the area of
flow and transport in porous media. It characterizes his ingenuity
that most of these excursions led to papers that are now classics
in the field.
The editors have chosen to divide his key publications into a
group devoted to soil mechanics and a group devoted to flow and
transport in porous media. The selected papers were published in
the period 1950-1990. They clearly demonstrate the development of
ideas and the profound contributions of de Josselin de Jong. Each
paper is a jewel on its own. He has an extremely original way of
reasoning and he illustrated intricate concepts and mechanisms with
the aid of his famous hand-made drawings. In particular young
scientists will enjoy reading these papers because important parts
of today's porous media research find their roots in them, and
because many questions raised by de Josselin de Jong are still open
and subject to current investigations.
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