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In civil engineering, stabilization is the retrofitting of platforms or foundations as constructed for the purpose of improving the bearing capacity and levelness of the supported building. Soil failure can occur on a slope, a slope failure or landslide , or in a flat area due to liquefaction of water-saturated sand and/or mud.
Soil stabilization is a general term for any physical, chemical, mechanical, biological, or combined method of changing a natural soil to meet an engineering purpose. [1] Improvements include increasing the weight-bearing capabilities, tensile strength, and overall performance of unstable subsoils , sands, and waste materials in order to ...
Sand dune stabilization is a coastal management practice designed to prevent erosion of sand dunes. Sand dunes are common features of shoreline and desert environments. Dunes provide habitat for highly specialized plants and animals, including rare and endangered species. They can protect beaches from erosion and recruit sand to eroded beaches.
The main objectives of slope stability analysis are finding endangered areas, investigation of potential failure mechanisms, determination of the slope sensitivity to different triggering mechanisms, designing of optimal slopes with regard to safety, reliability and economics, and designing possible remedial measures, e.g. barriers and ...
Land use is a description of how people utilize the land and of socio-economic activity. Urban and agricultural land uses are two of the most commonly known land use classes. At any one point or place, there may be multiple and alternate land uses, the specification of which may have a political dimension. The origins of the "land cover/land ...
A diagram of a mechanically stabilized earth wall as it would be modeled in a finite element analysis.. Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE or reinforced soil) is soil constructed with artificial reinforcing.
One option, he said, is a living shoreline, a nature-based solution that provides land stabilization and protects against erosion while also creating or enhancing living space. The Littoral ...
Stabilization of a hillside by increasing the mechanical strength of the unstable ground, can be achieved in two ways: Insertion of reinforcement elements into the ground; The improvement of the mechanical characteristics of the ground through chemical, thermal, or mechanical treatment.