Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour

by Masashi Nakano, Roland Pusch, Raymond N. Yong

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 resource, continues to change as a result of natural and anthropogenic stresses. As the discipline of soil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007AECP6G
• ISBN13: 9781439845295
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"