Soil Degradation-Consolidation Theory and Its Applications

📖 The Scoop

This book focuses on skeleton-degradable soils, represented by the municipal solid waste (MSW) with high food waste content in China, from the interdisciplinary perspective of environmental geotechnics for the first time. The degradation stability and deformation consolidation of skeleton-degradable soils are the research hotspots in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. Traditional environmental science does not consider the mechanical consolidation process of skeleton-degradable soils, while traditional soil mechanics does not consider the effects of degradation on soil consolidation. It comprehensively presents the degradation-consolidation theory of skeleton-degradable soils, expands the traditional soil mechanics category, and improves the basic theory of environmental geotechnics. The theory is mainly applied to environmental disaster prevention and control of MSW landfills, including the production and drainage of landfill leachate and gas, landfill instability analysis, and capacity expansion and can guide the sustainable landfilling of MSW. This book not only contains detailed theories, but also rich experimental data and advanced numerical and physical simulation methods, especially the application of centrifugal hypergravity and interdisciplinary experiments in the environmental disaster prevention and control in landfills. Hence, it is very suitable for researchers and graduate students engaged in soil constitutive relations, multi-field coupling problems, and related fields, such as methane hydrate extraction and underground coal gasification, to study and reference.

Genre: Science / Earth Sciences / General (fancy, right?)