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024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-5506-2$2doi
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100 1 $aZeitoun, David G.
245 10 $aLand Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas :$bThe Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study /$cby David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal.
260 $aDordrecht :$bSpringer Netherlands :$bImprint: Springer,$c2013.
300 $aXVIII, 307 p. 113 illus., 14 illus. in color.$bdigital.
490 1 $aSpringer Environmental Science and Engineering,$x2194-3214
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The subsidence phenomenon throughout the world -- Mechanical modeling of porous media -- Fundamentals of teh consolidation theory for soils -- Biot's theory of consolidation -- The numerical solution of the Biot equations -- General software -- A case study: the Bangkok plain.- Conclusions -- Index.
520 $aCities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence.  Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands.  Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons: 1.  Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the region causing additional soil deformations. 2.  Often the regions have to be drained in order to be occupied.  This results in lowering of the water table and leads to hydro-compaction. 3. Often the groundwater is used as a source of water for both human consumption and industrial use.  4. Levees and dams are often built to prevent or control flooding. Earth fissures caused by ground failure in areas of uneven or differential compaction have damaged buildings, roads and highways, railroads, flood-control structures and sewer lines.
520 $aAs emphasized by Barends , "in order to develop a legal framework to claims and litigation, it is essential that direct and indirect causes of land subsidence effects can be quantified with sufficient accuracy from a technical and scientific point of view." Most existing methods and software applications treat the subsidence problem by analyzing one of the causes.  This is due to the fact that the causes appear at different spatial scales. For example, over-pumping creates large scale subsidence, while building loading creates local subsidence/consolidation only. Then, maximum permissible land subsidence (or consolidation) is a constraint in different management problems such as: groundwater management, planning of town and/or laws on building construction. It is, therefore, necessary to quantify the contribution of each cause to soil subsidence of the ground surface in cities urban area.
520 $aIn this text book, we present an engineering approach based on the Biot system of equations to predict the soil settlement due to subsidence, resulting from different causes. Also we present a case study of The Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA).
650 20 $aSoftware engineering.
650 20 $aHydrogeology.
650 10 $aEarth sciences.
650 0 $aGeography.
650 0 $aHydraulic engineering.
650 0 $aSoftware engineering.
650 0 $aRegional planning.
650 24 $aGeotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.
650 24 $aGeoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.
650 24 $aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
650 24 $aGeophysics and Environmental Physics.
700 1 $aWakshal, Eliyahu.
776 08 $iPrinted edition:$z9789400755055
830 0 $aSpringer Environmental Science and Engineering.
988 $a20130626
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