Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study /

• Main Authors: Zeitoun, David G. (Author), Wakshal, Eliyahu. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Environmental Science and Engineering,
• Subjects: Geography.; Hydraulic engineering.; Software engineering.; Regional planning.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Hydrogeology.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.; Software Engineering.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5506-2

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 are...

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.