Environmental Geomechanics

About this book

This volume deals with two topics increasingly important to the engineering practice, natural hazards and conservation of cultural heritage. It investigates solutions which involve the coupling of different phenomena taking place in multiphase porous media such as soil, rock, building stones and snow.

Contents

1. Mountain Stream Hydraulics and Debris Flow, Christophe Ancey et al. 2. Nivology and Avalanches, C. Ancey et al. 3. Instability of Soil Masses, Laurent Vulliet. 4. Instability of Rock Masses, Francois Descoeudres. 5. Subsidence due to Water Withdrawal, Bernard Schrefler and Luciano Simoni. 6. Local Subsidence due to Water Infiltration, Yu-Jun Cui and J.-P. Magnan. 7. Subsidence due to the Extraction of Coal and Hydrocarbons, Christian Schroeder, Yu-Jun Cui and Bernard Schrefler. 8. Alteration of Building Stones, Veronique Verges-Belmin. 9. Physics of Water Transfer in Stones, Jean-Paul Laurent. 10. Experimental Techniques for Characterizing the Alterations, Claude Brunjail, Guy Bastian and Gregoire Chene. 11. Case Studies, V. Verges-Belmin et al. 12. Nature and Survey of Soil Pollution, Abdelmalek Bouazza, Pierre Delage and Michel Wojnarowicz. 13. Retention and Transfer of Chemical Soluble Pollution: Mechanisms and Numerical Modeling, Robert Charlier and Jean-Pol Radu. 14. Retention and Transfer of Trace Elements and Heavy Metals: Mechanisms and Numerical Modeling, Jean-Paul Gaudet and Michel Vauclin. 15. Retention and Transfer of Hydrocarbon Pollution: Mechanisms and Numerical Modeling of the Methods, Bernard Schrefler and Pierre Delage. 16. Methods of Remediation of Polluted Soils, Abdelmalek Bouazza, Michel Wojnarowicz and Mario Manassero. 17. Confining Liners in Waste Disposal Facilities, Mario Manassero and Abdelmalek Bouazza.

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