Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour
eBook - PDF

Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour

  1. 455 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour

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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 resou

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Yes, you can access Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour by Raymond N. Yong, Masashi Nakano, Roland Pusch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences biologiques & Science environnementale. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. The Authors
  8. 1: Origin and Function of Soils
  9. 2: Nature of Soils
  10. 3: Soil–Water Systems
  11. 4: Swelling Clays
  12. 5: Stressors, Impacts, and Soil Functionality
  13. 6: Mechanical Properties
  14. 7: Thermal and Hydraulic Properties
  15. 8: Sorption Properties and Mechanisms
  16. 9: Mobility and Attenuation of Contaminants
  17. 10: Environmental Soil Behaviour
  18. Index