Biological Considerations in Geotechnical Engineering

By J. Mitchell, J. C. Santamarina. 2005

657 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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In Environmental Chemistry

1. I. Chang
2. Gye-Chun Cho
3. Sun-Gyu Choi

In Environmental Engineering

1. I. Chang
2. Gye-Chun Cho
3. Abhijit Mukherjee
4. J. C. Santamarina
5. Sun-Gyu Choi
6. A. Aydilek
7. E. Seagren
8. N. Dhami

In Ocean Engineering

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2. Gye-Chun Cho
3. Sun-Gyu Choi

Citations in the corpus

• Soil strengthening using thermo-gelation biopolymers (2015, background): “Recently, some researchers have studied the utilization of biopolymers in the field of geotechnical engineering [8–10].”
• Strengthening of Korean residual soil with β-1,3/1,6-glucan biopolymer (2012, background): “In the fields of soil science, geotechnical engineering, and geoenvironmental engineering, biopolymers have been applied as soil stabilizers in order to control or reduce soil erosion [18,19] and are used for soil drilling mud and temporary excavation supports [20].”
• Biogeochemical processes and geotechnical applications: progress, opportunities and challenges (2013, background): “Near the ground surface, more than 1012 microbes exist per kilogram of soil (Mitchell & Santamarina, 2005).”
• Biological process of soil improvement in civil engineering: A review (2016, background): “Hence, the effects of these microorganisms on mechanical properties of soils are still not fully discovered in geotechnical engineering field (Mitchell and Santamarina, 2005).”
• Biomineralization of calcium carbonates and their engineered applications: a review (2013, background): “…the calcite crystals form cohesive “bridges” between existing sand grains, increasing the stiffness of sand with limited decrease in permeability (Mitchell and Santamarina, 2005; DeJong et al., 2006; Whiffin et al., 2007; Ivanov and Chu, 2008; Van Paassen et al., 2010; Al Qabany, 2011) (Figure…”
• Geotechnical engineering behaviors of gellan gum biopolymer treated sand (2016, background): “Only the initial condition was considered for the laboratory permeability tests to simulate the bioclogging effect (Mitchell and Santamarina 2005) induced by instant gellan gum-treatment (e.”
• Effects of Xanthan Gum Biopolymer on the Permeability, Odometer, Unconfined Compressive and Triaxial Shear Behavior of a Sand (2017, background): “allow for the strengthening of the soil (increased cohesion and strength, resistance to erosion, reducing permeability) by acting as a biological binder [16-20].”
• Review on geotechnical engineering properties of sands treated by microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) and biopolymers (2020, methodology): “Biomineralization using the MICP method has been suggested for geotechnical engineering applications [34,48].”