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The Role of Geotechnics in Addressing New World Problems
There are many “new world”, or recently emergent, global challenges whose solutions require geotechnical inputs. Included among these challenges are climate change, enhancement of urban sustainability and resilience, energy and materials resource management, and management of water resources. Fundamental advances in the understanding of soil and rock properties and behavior, coupled with advances in sensing, monitoring and modeling of geo-systems, are needed for solutions to be found or implemented satisfactorily in each of these four areas. In addition, there is need for fundamental research that can improve the subsurface characterization and monitoring of complex geo-material behavior, the handling of multi-faceted, multi-scale geotechnical and geo-environmental processes, the integration of “big-data” and data-science methods into geotechnical engineering research and practice, and the management of uncertainty and risk. In addition to advancing fundamental research in geotechnics, geotechnical engineers also need to lend expertise and leadership to the interdisciplinary research and development efforts that are essential to ensuring our sustainable future.
The Role of Geotechnics in Addressing New World Problems
There are many “new world”, or recently emergent, global challenges whose solutions require geotechnical inputs. Included among these challenges are climate change, enhancement of urban sustainability and resilience, energy and materials resource management, and management of water resources. Fundamental advances in the understanding of soil and rock properties and behavior, coupled with advances in sensing, monitoring and modeling of geo-systems, are needed for solutions to be found or implemented satisfactorily in each of these four areas. In addition, there is need for fundamental research that can improve the subsurface characterization and monitoring of complex geo-material behavior, the handling of multi-faceted, multi-scale geotechnical and geo-environmental processes, the integration of “big-data” and data-science methods into geotechnical engineering research and practice, and the management of uncertainty and risk. In addition to advancing fundamental research in geotechnics, geotechnical engineers also need to lend expertise and leadership to the interdisciplinary research and development efforts that are essential to ensuring our sustainable future.
The Role of Geotechnics in Addressing New World Problems
Springer Ser.Geomech.,Geoengineer.
Lu, Ning (editor) / Mitchell, James K. (editor) / Culligan, Patricia J. (author) / Whittle, Andrew J. (author) / Mitchell, James K. (author)
2019-05-25
27 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Geotechnics , Climate change , Urban sustainability and resilience , Energy and materials , Surface and groundwater water resources , Subsurface characterization , Multi-scale processes , Big-data , Uncertainty and risk Engineering , Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics , Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences , Geochemistry , Soil Science & Conservation
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