Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics

Site Characterization

Kok-Kwang Phoon, Chong Tang

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040166437
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics forms a definitive reference and guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering, to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. This first volume pertains to site characterization. The opening chapter presents an in-depth analysis of site data attributes, including the establishment of a new taxonomy of site data under "4S" (site generalizations, spatial features, sampling characteristics, and smart data) to provide a novel agenda for data-driven site characterization. Type 3 machine learning methods (disruptive value) are possible as sensors become more pervasive and more intelligent. A comprehensive overview of site characterization information is also presented with a focus on its availability, coverage, value to decision making, and challenges. The remaining 13 chapters cover databases of soil and rock properties and the application of these databases to rock socket behavior, rock classification, settlement on soft marine clays, permeability of fine-grained soils, and liquefaction among others. The databases were compiled from studies undertaken in many countries including Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This volume on site characterization is a companion to the volume on geotechnical structures. Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics represents the most diverse and comprehensive assembly of database research in a single publication (consisting of two volumes) to date. It follows from Model Uncertainties for Foundation Design, also published by CRC Press, and suits specialist geotechnical engineers, researchers and graduate students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Challenges in geotechnical and rock engineering
• Foreword
• Preface
• List of contributors
• 1 Role of site characterization information in data-centric geotechnics
• 2 Rock hydromechanical parameters for rock foundation design: A database approach
• 3 Evaluation of soil/rock properties using databases
• 4 Undrained shear strength of Finnish soft clays: A database perspective
• 5 Role of databases in the evaluation of soil properties
• 6 New laboratory database of hydraulic conductivity measurements on fine-grained soils
• 7 Normalised active undrained shear strengths of soft Scandinavian clays: A data-centric and geomechanical approach
• 8 Prediction for the mechanical response of gravels
• 9 Evaluation of compressibility properties for soft marine clays
• 10 An engineering geological parameter database of tunnel surrounding rock and its application
• 11 Exploring challenges via analysis of multivariate geotechnical properties: Insights from large-scale local sampling of Japanese marine clay
• 12 In situ test-based evaluation of soil effective stress strength properties and stress history
• 13 Mechanical–statistical evaluation of soil properties
• 14 Data-centric seismic soil liquefaction assessment: Approaches, data, and tools
• 15 Prediction for soil design properties based on a multivariate database for Shanghai soft clay
• Index