Geomechanics for Energy and a Sustainable Environment

• Main Author: Cho, Gye-Chun (auth)
• Other Authors: Chang, Ilhan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; HLW disposal; strength criterion; dilation angle; mechanical property; shear shrinkage; clay content; constitutive model; hydrate mining; temperature field; greenhouse gas; disaster; plastic strain; phase change; extreme precipitation; geotechnical engineering hazard; slippage at the interface; plastic shear strain; soil stabilization; shear/normal coupling stiffness; temperature; triaxial shear; numerical simulation; depressurization method; CWFS; climate change; carbon dioxide; wellbore stability analysis; direct shear experiment; damage process; global warming; methane hydrate; normal stress; ground improvement; yield condition; granite; lattice Boltzmann method; artificial frozen soil wall
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book describes recent advances in geomechanics for energy and the sustainable environment. Four research articles, related to high-level radioactive nuclear waste disposal stability, geological effect and wellbore stability considerations for methane gas hydrate production, and artificial soil freezing, are presented in this book. In addition, a comprehensive state-of-the-art review verifies the strong correlation between global climate change and the occurrence of geotechnical engineering hazards. The review also summarizes recent attempts to reduce CO2 emissions from civil and geotechnical engineering practices. Readers will gain ideas as to how we can deal with conventional and renewable energy sources and environment-related geotechnical engineering issues.