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Soils --- Rocks --- Civil engineering --- Rock mechanics. --- Soil mechanics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Geotechnical engineering --- Mechanics --- Soil engineering --- Soils (Engineering) --- Foundations --- Soil physics

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The agricultural world has changed significantly during the last years. The excessive use of heavy machinery, waste disposal, the use of agrochemicals and new soil cultivation means led to severe problems, which agricultural engineers have to cope with in order to prevent soil from permanent irreversible damage. This Soil Biology volume will update readers on several cutting-edge aspects of sustainable soil engineering including topics such as: soil compaction, soil density increases, soil disturbance and soil fragmentation; soil tillage machineries and optimization of tillage tools; soil traffic and traction, effects of heavy agricultural machines, the use of robotics in agriculture and controlled traffic farming; mechanical weed control, the characterization of soil variability and the recycling of compost and biosolids in agricultural soils.

Engineering geology. --- Foundations. --- Soil mechanics. --- Soil remediation. --- Soil dynamics. --- Dynamics, Soil --- Soil engineering --- Soils --- Soils (Engineering) --- Mechanics --- Earth sciences. --- Sedimentology. --- Agriculture. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Waste management. --- Environmental engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Sustainable development. --- Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Sustainable Development. --- Soil mechanics --- Geotechnical engineering --- Foundations --- Soil physics --- Waste disposal. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Petrology --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Engineering --- Environmental health --- Environmental protection --- Pollution --- Sustainable engineering

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This book presents the basic principles of soil dynamics, and a variety of solutions of practical interest for geotechnical engineering, geophysics and earthquake engineering. Emphasis is on analytical solutions, often including the full derivation of the solution, and giving the main parts of computer programs that can be used to calculate numerical data. Reference is also made to a website from which complete computer programs can be downloaded. Soil behaviour is usually assumed to be linear elastic, but in many cases the effect of viscous damping or hysteretic damping, due to plastic deformations, is also considered. Special features are: the analysis of wave propagation in saturated compressible porous media, approximate analysis of the generation of Rayleigh waves, the analysis of the response of soil layers to earthquakes in the deep rock, with a theoretical foundation of such problems by the propagation of Love waves, and the solution of such basic problems as the response of an elastic half space to point loads, line loads, strip loads and moving loads. - Includes detailed derivations of solutions - Includes listings of main parts of computer programs - Computer programs are available from the website http://geo.verruijt.net - Includes dynamics of porous media Audience: Students and staff in soil dynamics at civil engineering, geophysics and earthquake engineering departments. .

Soil dynamics --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Civil Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Soil dynamics. --- Soil mechanics. --- Soil engineering --- Soils --- Soils (Engineering) --- Dynamics, Soil --- Mechanics --- Engineering. --- Earth sciences. --- Geophysics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Engineering geology. --- Engineering --- Foundations. --- Hydraulics. --- Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. --- Geophysics and Environmental Physics. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Geology. --- Geotechnical engineering --- Foundations --- Soil physics --- Soil mechanics --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Geography. --- Physical geography. --- Geography --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Engineering—Geology. --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Physics --- Flow of water --- Water --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Architecture --- Building --- Structural engineering --- Underground construction --- Caissons --- Earthwork --- Masonry --- Soil consolidation --- Walls --- Civil engineering --- Geology, Economic --- Flow --- Distribution --- Details --- Geology

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The fundamental premise of this monograph is that transparent synthetic materials with geotechnical properties similar to those of natural soils can be used to study 3D deformation and flow problems in natural soils. Transparent soils can be made by matching the refractive index of synthetic soil materials and the pore fluid. This monographs presents the geotechnical behaviour of several families of transparent soils that can be combined to meet model-test requirements, in terms of strength, deformation, or permeability. "Modelling with Transparent Soils" demonstrates how an optical system consisting of a laser light, a CCD camera, a frame grabber, and a PC can be used to measure spatial deformations in transparent soil models non-intrusively. Transparent soil models are sliced optically using a laser light sheet. A distinctive speckle pattern is generated by the interaction of the laser light and transparent soil. A 2D deformation field is obtained from two speckle images by using an image processing technique named adaptive cross-correlation, which is an advanced form of the digital image cross-correlation (DIC) algorithm that utilizes both window sizing and window shifting methods. The monograph demonstrates that comparison of 2D deformation fields between transparent soil and natural soil showed that the results were comparable in almost every aspect. Three dimensional fields can be produced by combining multiple 2D fields in Matlab. Multiphase flow and surfactant flushing tests were also simulated using a layered transparent soil systems and several contaminants. The developed technology allows for visualizing the contamination concentration and evaluating the performance of remediation technologies in bench scale model tests. .

Soil mechanics -- Computer simulation. --- Soil mechanics. --- Soils. --- Soil mechanics --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Materials Science --- Civil Engineering --- Applied Mathematics --- Computer simulation --- Computer simulation. --- Soil engineering --- Soils --- Soils (Engineering) --- Mechanics --- Engineering. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Continuum physics. --- Mechanics. --- Continuum mechanics. --- Vibration. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Engineering geology. --- Engineering --- Foundations. --- Hydraulics. --- Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Classical Continuum Physics. --- Geology. --- Flow of water --- Water --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Architecture --- Building --- Structural engineering --- Underground construction --- Caissons --- Earthwork --- Masonry --- Soil consolidation --- Walls --- Civil engineering --- Geology, Economic --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Physics --- Statics --- Cycles --- Sound --- Mechanics of continua --- Elasticity --- Field theory (Physics) --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Classical field theory --- Continuum physics --- Continuum mechanics --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Flow --- Distribution --- Details --- Geology --- Geotechnical engineering --- Foundations --- Soil physics --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Classical Mechanics. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Classical and Continuum Physics. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Engineering—Geology.