174 Pages
40 Color & 67 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
174 Pages
40 Color & 67 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
174 Pages
40 Color & 67 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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Without any protective intervention, the historic city of Venice and its surrounding islands would suffer rapid deterioration due to the increased frequency of tidal flooding, as the gap between land surface and sea levels has reduced due to a coupled effect of climate change-induced sea-level rise and natural and anthropic subsidence.
Geotechnics of Venice and Its Lagoon provides a clear and... Read more
1. The recurrent flooding of the lagoon city.
2. Geology of the lagoon.
3. Subsidence of Venice.
4. Site and laboratory geotechnical investigations.
5. Venetian soil constitutive modelling.
6. Geotechnical behaviour of defense structures.
7. Geotechnical monitoring of marshes and wetlands.
8. Long term behavior of historical building foundations.
9. Safeguarding Piazza San Marco.
10. Concluding remarks.
Biography
Paolo Simonini is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Padova, Padua, Italy and a full member of the Italian government's Council for Public Works.
