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Questions about the Earth continue to haunt engineers. For instance: What do we know about our ancient planet? How should we be using it? And what are the best technologies and strategies to sustain us?
Earth Engineering provides the background necessary to analyze these questions as well as perspectives, principles, and practices to guide your understanding of geoengineering problems. Scientists, engineers, regulators, designers, constructors, educators and students will find this book especially useful when considering challenges tied to civil engineering, construction, and mining. Written in simple language, this reference guide covers many areas, including
how the Earth began and developed over 4.6 billion years ago;
how to avoid bad decisions during site investigation, planning and design;
how to cope with subsurface conditions and challenges;
how to handle being called as an expert witness in court;
how to analyze and approach problems on all sorts of terrain.
You will treasure this broad collection and overview of geoengineering perspectives, principles, and practices. Round out your knowledge and troubleshoot common problems with the knowledge, tools, and strategies you will find in Earth Engineering.
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| Title of eBook: Earth Engineering: Perspectives, Principles, and Practices | |
| Release Date: 12-22-2010 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Earth Engineering: Perspectives, Principles, and Practices
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
All civil engineering and mining projects engage the surface of the Earth. The feasibility studies, planning, design, construction and operation of such projects are supported by or situated in the Earth's crust.
We are fascinated with, but carefully reminded that every site used for civil engineeringandminingstructuresisuniqueandnestledwithinawidelyvarying Earth terrain. There are often vast subsurface differences, or nonhomogeneous and anisotropic conditions, between adjoining sites due to the underlying and evolving geologic anomalies and the varying stratigraphy. Although site characteristics can vary, the fundamental geoengineering principles applied to the factual observations of the subsurface conditions do not vary.
The renowned engineering geologist, Dr. Robert F. Legget, advises us,
"... the records of the geological survey show conclusively that closer cooperation between the geologist and the engineer would be greatly to the advantage of both, and it is a pity that there is no very direct way in which geologists could be kept informed of the progress of important excavations."
Within civil engineering the discipline of geotechnical engineering developed from the science of soil mechanics in the early part of the twentieth century.
The father of soil mechanics, Dr. Karl Terzaghi, stated,
"... on account of the fact that there is no glory attached to the foundations and that the sources of success or failure are hidden deep in the ground, building foundations have always been treated as stepchildren and their acts of reve
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