Groundwater Engineering

by Yiqun Tang, Jie Zhou, Ping Yang Jingjing Yan, Nianqing Zhou

The largest source of freshwater lies in underground water. Rapid economic and construction development makes engineering geological and environmental problems of groundwater more serious.

In many cases, such as soil deformation or pit bottom bursting in foundation pit excavation, land subsidence by engineering dewatering, quicksand, piping, or sand liquefaction in underground construction,

stability problem in bedrock area, corrosion of concrete and steel bar, etc., groundwater always plays a crucial role.

These engineering geological, hydrogeological problems or construction disasters have been paid a substantial amount of attention by researchers and engineers.

A lot of new knowledge about groundwater engineering has been accumulated over the past decades.

Combined with the engineering practice experience and the summary of construction lessons, the prevention or alleviation of engineering geological and environmental problems relevant to groundwater must be of greater significance and emergence.

The authors have been involved in the teaching and research work on groundwater engineering for many years.

For a textbook, it is an achievement on the summary of previous basic knowledge and our practical engineering experience.

It also plays an important role as a most applicable education material for both senior undergraduate and graduate students.

The integration of theory and practice makes it a professional textbook for related students.

Moreover, it can provide valuable references for technical staff and managers of engineering construction.