Author	Yong, R. N. (Raymond Nen)
Title	Environmental soil properties and behaviour / Raymond N. Yong, Masashi Nakano, Roland Pusch
Imprint	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012
Descript	xix, 435 p. : ill., charts ; 25 cm

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 properties and behaviours matures, new tools and techniques are making it possible to study these properties and behaviours in more depth

Origin and function of soils -- Nature of soils -- Soil-water systems -- Swelling clays -- Stressors, impacts, and soil functionality -- Mechanical properties -- Thermal and hydraulic properties -- Sorption properties and mechanisms -- Mobility and attenuation of contaminants -- Environmental soil behaviour

1. Soil mechanics

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