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  title info:
    title: Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas
    sub title: The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study
  name:
    name part: Zeitoun, David G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wakshal, Eliyahu.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 307 p. online resource.
  abstract: Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons: 1. Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the region causing additional soil deformations. 2. Often the regions have to be drained in order to be occupied. This results in lowering of the water table and leads to hydro-compaction. 3. Often the groundwater is used as a source of water for both human consumption and industrial use. 4. Levees and dams are often built to prevent or control flooding. Earth fissures caused by ground failure in areas of uneven or differential compaction have damaged buildings, roads and highways, railroads, flood-control structures and sewer lines. As emphasized by Barends , "in order to develop a legal framework to claims and litigation, it is essential that direct and indirect causes of land subsidence effects can be quantified with sufficient accuracy from a technical and scientific point of view." Most existing methods and software applications treat the subsidence problem by analyzing one of the causes. This is due to the fact that the causes appear at different spatial scales. For example, over-pumping creates large scale subsidence, while building loading creates local subsidence/consolidation only. Then, maximum permissible land subsidence (or consolidation) is a constraint in different management problems such as: groundwater management, planning of town and/or laws on building construction. It is, therefore, necessary to quantify the contribution of each cause to soil subsidence of the ground surface in cities urban area. In this text book, we present an engineering approach based on the Biot system of equations to predict the soil settlement due to subsidence, resulting from d…
  table of contents: Introduction -- The subsidence phenomenon throughout the world -- Mechanical modeling of porous media -- Fundamentals of teh consolidation theory for soils -- Biot's theory of consolidation -- The numerical solution of the Biot equations -- General software -- A case study: the Bangkok plain.- Conclusions -- Index.
  note: by David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering geology
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Foundations
  subject:
    topic: Hydraulics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics and Environmental Physics
  classification: TA703-705.4
  classification: 624.151
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
  identifier: 9789400755062
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5506-2
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    record creation date: 130107
    record change date: 20151125151534.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-5506-2