Land subsidence analysis in urban areas : the Bangkok metropolitan area case study / D.G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal.
Cities 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...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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.