Sustainability in Geotechnics: The Use of Environmentally Friendly Materials

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Technology: general issues; base course reinforcement; bioengineering techniques; Bland-Altman analysis; carbon emissions; CDW; cement; climatological conditions; composite; compressive strength; copper slag; desorption; dewatering; diffusion; drained test; durability; eCO2; embodied energy; energy consumption; environmentally friendly materials; enzyme solutions; expansive soils; extractant; fatigue life; field test; fine-grained soil; fly ash; geogrid; geogrid-reinforced soil structure; geogrids; geomembrane; geopolymer; geopolymers; geosynthetics; geotechnical properties; geotextile tubes; geotextile-polynorbornene liner; geotextiles; green infrastructure; ground improvement; ground remediation; gypsum; HDPE; heavy metal immobilization; heavy metals; incinerator bottom ash; interface shear strength; laboratory test; large-direct shear test; lateritic soil; leachate; leachate analysis; life cycle assessment; lime; liners; local strain; low carbon materials; maximum dry unit weight; mechanical damage; mechanical property; microbial induced carbonate precipitation; microstructure; oil-contaminated soils; optimum moisture content; pavement geotechnics; pavements; permeability alteration; PET bottles; phytosanitary aspects; pollutant adsorption; polymer dosing; polypropylene fibers; polypropylene strips; PROMETHEE; pullout behaviour; pullout test parameters; recycled aluminum salt slag; recycled construction and demolition materials; recycled material; recycled materials; recycled pet strips; recycled waste; resilient modulus; response surface; sewage; shear strength; slope's superficial erosion; sludge; small-strain stiffness; soda residue; soil; soil improvement; soil stabilization; soil-cement; strength; stress-dilatancy; subgrade; substitute building material; sustainability benefits; sustainability in geotechnical engineering; sustainability in geotechnics; sustainable engineering; sustainable ground improvement; sustainable ground remediation; sustainable remediation; sustainable reuse of plastic waste; thermal analysis; tire-derived aggregate; tires; total solids; triaxial test; uniaxial tests; vegetative cover index; waste valorization; wastes
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 Implementing environmentally friendly and cost-effective solutions is a pressing need to fulfill the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set to be achieved by 2030. Thus, the requirement to execute the design, construction and maintenance of civil engineering structures and infrastructures as sustainably as possible are big challenges currently faced by civil and geotechnical engineers. This book, compiling the papers published during the 2020-2021 biennium in the Topical Collection, "Sustainability in Geotechnics: The Use of Environmentally Friendly Materials", is intended help tackle those challenges. Several topics are covered by the 23 papers published herein, including: sustainable ground improvement techniques; replacement of raw materials such as soils and aggregates by recycled materials; soil reinforcement with alternative materials; sustainable solutions using geosynthetics; low-carbon solutions for stabilization of contaminated soils; and bioengineering techniques to prevent soil erosion. The Guest Editor expects that this book can be very useful towards the achievement of more environmentally friendly solutions, in particular in the field of geotechnical engineering.