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Author: Milutin Srbulov Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401786380 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 382
Book Description
This handy reference manual puts a wealth of ready-to-use information, data, and practical procedures within immediate reach of geo-engineers and technicians, whether they be in the field or office. It assembles and organizes the most-needed set of equations, tables, graphs and check-lists on six major subfields of geo-engineering: investigations, testing, properties, hazards, structures and works. This practical reference for the professional and others interested in the subject of ground engineering skips lengthy definitions to highlight best practice and methods proven most effective. While reflecting codes and standards, it also fills the gaps with non-standard approaches when existing ones are skimpy on practical details or agreement. Enhanced by 146 illustrations and 83 tables, the Practical Guide to Geo-Engineering points users to supporting information and data through its extensive reference list. Audience: This book is of interest to everyone involved in practical geo-engineering.
Author: Milutin Srbulov Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401786380 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 382
Book Description
This handy reference manual puts a wealth of ready-to-use information, data, and practical procedures within immediate reach of geo-engineers and technicians, whether they be in the field or office. It assembles and organizes the most-needed set of equations, tables, graphs and check-lists on six major subfields of geo-engineering: investigations, testing, properties, hazards, structures and works. This practical reference for the professional and others interested in the subject of ground engineering skips lengthy definitions to highlight best practice and methods proven most effective. While reflecting codes and standards, it also fills the gaps with non-standard approaches when existing ones are skimpy on practical details or agreement. Enhanced by 146 illustrations and 83 tables, the Practical Guide to Geo-Engineering points users to supporting information and data through its extensive reference list. Audience: This book is of interest to everyone involved in practical geo-engineering.
Author: Gernot Wagner Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509543074 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 208
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Stabilizing the world’s climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There’s no way around it. But what if that’s not enough? What if it’s too difficult to accomplish in the time allotted or, worse, what if it’s so late in the game that even cutting carbon emissions to zero, tomorrow, wouldn’t do? Enter solar geoengineering. The principle is simple: attempt to cool Earth by reflecting more sunlight back into space. The primary mechanism, shooting particles into the upper atmosphere, implies more pollution, not less. If that doesn’t sound scary, it should. There are lots of risks, unknowns, and unknowables. In Geoengineering: The Gamble, climate economist Gernot Wagner provides a balanced take on the possible benefits and all-too-real risks, especially the so-called “moral hazard” that researching or even just discussing (solar) geoengineering would undermine the push to cut carbon emissions in the first place. Despite those risks, he argues, solar geoengineering may only be a matter of time. Not if, but when. As the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, Wagner explores scenarios of a geoengineered future, offering an inside-view of the research already under way and the actions the world must take to guide it in a productive direction.
Author: Walter Wallace Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3689046173 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 178
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This book offers a comprehensive examination of geoengineering with a special focus on the diverse, sometimes new technologies and their potential effects. In the age of advancing climate change, technological approaches to actively influence the climate are becoming increasingly important. From carbon capture and storage to solar radiation management, ocean fertilisation and other innovative methods, this book sheds light on the scientific principles and technical details of these processes. It analyses the opportunities that these technologies offer to slow down climate change and mitigate its consequences. At the same time, the risks and uncertainties associated with the application of large-scale geoengineering measures are discussed. Ethical, legal and social implications are taken into account, as are the challenges of global cooperation and public acceptance. Practical case studies and illustrative examples provide the reader with an insight into current developments and practical applications of geoengineering. Finally, an outlook is given on the future of these technologies and the possible scenarios for their integration into global climate policy are discussed. An indispensable work for anyone who wants to get to grips with the complex challenges and potential of geoengineering.
Author: Milutin Srbulov Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400713126 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 280
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The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by using formulas and hand calculators. The usefulness and accuracy of the simple analyses are demonstrated by their implementation to the case histories available in the literature. Ideally, the users of the volume will be able to comment on the analyses as well as provide more case histories of simple considerations by publishing their results in a number of international journals and conferences. The ultimate aim is to extend the existing codes and standards by adding new widely accepted analyses in engineering practice. The following topics have been considered in this volume: • main ground motion sources and properties • typical ground motions, recording, ground investigations and testing • soil properties used in simple analyses • fast sliding in non-liquefied soil • flow of liquefied sandy soil • massive retaining walls • slender retaining walls • shallow foundations • piled foundations • tunnels, vertical shafts and pipelines • ground vibration caused by industry. Audience: This book is of interest to geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, earthquake engineers and students
Author: Holly Jean Buck Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1786637995 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 330
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Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea. We are right to fear that geoengineering will be used to maintain the status quo, but is there another possible future after geoengineering? Can these technologies and practices be used to bring carbon levels back down to pre-industrial levels? Are there possibilities for massive intentional intervention in the climate that are democratic, decentralised, or participatory? These questions are provocative, because they go against a binary that has become common sense: geoengineering is assumed to be on the side of industrial agriculture, inequality and ecomodernism, in opposition to degrowth, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and climate justice. After Geoengineering rejects this binary, to ask: what if the people seized the means of climate production? Both critical and utopian, the book examines the possible futures after geoengineering. Rejecting the idea that geoengineering is some kind of easy work-around, Holly Buck outlines the kind of social transformation that would be necessary to enact a programme of geoengineering in the first place.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309180171 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 220
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The field of geoengineering is at a crossroads where the path to high-tech solutions meets the path to expanding applications of geotechnology. In this report, the term "geoengineering" includes all types of engineering that deal with Earth materials, such as geotechnical engineering, geological engineering, hydrological engineering, and Earth-related parts of petroleum engineering and mining engineering. The rapid expansion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology begs the question of how these new approaches might come to play in developing better solutions for geotechnological problems. This report presents a vision for the future of geotechnology aimed at National Science Foundation (NSF) program managers, the geological and geotechnical engineering community as a whole, and other interested parties, including Congress, federal and state agencies, industry, academia, and other stakeholders in geoengineering research. Some of the ideas may be close to reality whereas others may turn out to be elusive, but they all present possibilities to strive for and potential goals for the future. Geoengineers are poised to expand their roles and lead in finding solutions for modern Earth systems problems, such as global change, emissions-free energy supply, global water supply, and urban systems.
Author: James Fern Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9781138323315 Category : Geotechnical engineering Languages : en Pages : 420
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Computational geomechanics / E.J. Fern, K. Soga and E.E. Alonso -- Fundamentals of the material point method / A. Yerro and A. Rohe -- Different formulations and integration schemes / A. Chmelnizkij and J. Grabe -- Recent developments to improve the numerical accuracy / E. Wobbes, R. Tielen, M. Möller, C. Vuik and V. Galavi -- Axisymmetric formulation / V. Galavi, F.S. Tehrani, M. Martinelli, A.Elkadi and D. Luger -- Numerical features used in simulations / F. Ceccato and P. Simonini -- An introduction to critical state soil mechanics / E.J. Fern and K. Soga -- An introduction to constitutive modelling / E.J. Fern and K. Soga -- The granular column collapse / E.J. Fern and K. Soga -- Inverse analysis for modelling reduced-scale laboratory slopes / S. Cuomo, M. Calvello and P. Ghasemi -- Dyke embankment analysis / B. Zuada Coelho and J.D. Nuttall -- Landslides in unsaturated soil / A. Yerro and E.E. Alonso -- Preliminary analysis of a landslide in the north-west pacific / E.J. Fern -- Thermal interaction in shear bands : the Vajont landslide / M. Alvarado, N.M. Pinyol and E.E. Alonso -- Excavation-induced instabilities / N.M. Pinyol and G. Di Carluccio -- Slope reliability and failure analysis using random fields / G. Remmerswaal, M.A. Hicks and P.J. Vardon -- Jacked pile installation in sand / A. Rohe and P. Nguyen -- Cone penetration tests / F. Ceccato and P. Simonini -- Dynamic compaction / A. Chmelnizkij and J. Grabe -- Installation of geocontainers / B. Zuada Coelho -- Applications in hydraulic engineering / X. Zhao and D. Liang -- Thermal interaction in shear bands / M. Alvarado, N.M. Pinyol and E.E. Alonso.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309314852 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 276
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The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques. It is far easier to modify Earth's albedo than to determine whether it should be done or what the consequences might be of such an action. One serious concern is that such an action could be unilaterally undertaken by a small nation or smaller entity for its own benefit without international sanction and regardless of international consequences. Transparency in discussing this subject is critical. In the spirit of that transparency, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth was based on peer-reviewed literature and the judgments of the authoring committee; no new research was done as part of this study and all data and information used are from entirely open sources. By helping to bring light to this topic area, this book will help leaders to be far more knowledgeable about the consequences of albedo modification approaches before they face a decision whether or not to use them.
Author: Milutin Srbulov
Author: Milutin Srbulov
Author: Jesse L. Reynolds
Author: Gernot Wagner
Author: Walter Wallace
Author: Milutin Srbulov
Author: Holly Jean Buck
Author: National Research Council
Author: James Fern
Author: National Research Council
Author: Oliver Morton