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

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David G. Zeitoun Eliyahu Wakshal

Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas

The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study

David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal

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English

Springer
18 June 2015

Economic geology; Urban & municipal planning; Soil & rock mechanics

Series: Springer Environmental Science and Engineering

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 aggravates the problem for several reasons:

1. Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the region causing additional soil deformations.

2. Often the regions have to be drained in order to be occupied. This results in lowering of the water table and leads to hydro-compaction.

3. Often the groundwater is used as a source of water for both human consumption and industrial use.

4. Levees and dams are often built to prevent or control flooding.

Earth fissures caused by ground failure in areas of uneven or differential compaction have damaged buildings, roads and highways, railroads, flood-control structures and sewer lines. As emphasized by Barends , ""in order to develop a legal framework to claims and litigation, it is essential that direct and indirect causes of land subsidence effects can be quantified with sufficient accuracy from a technical and scientific point of view.""

Most existing methods and software applications treat the subsidence problem by analyzing one of the causes. This is due to the fact that the causes appear at different spatial scales. For example, over-pumping creates large scale subsidence, while building loading creates local subsidence/consolidation only.

Then, maximum permissible land subsidence (or consolidation) is a constraint in different management problems such as: groundwater management, planning of town and/or laws on building construction. It is, therefore, necessary to quantify the contribution of each cause to soil subsidence of the ground surface in cities urban area.

In this text book, we present an engineering approach based on the Biotsystem of equations to predict the soil settlement due to subsidence, resulting from different causes. Also we present a case study of The Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA).

By: David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 2013 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 4.978kg
ISBN: 9789400797345
ISBN 10: 9400797346
Series: Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
Pages: 307
Publication Date: 18 June 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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