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The Joint European Working Group of the ISSMGE, ISRM and IAEG for the Definition of Professional Tasks, Responsibilities and Co-operation in Ground Engineering
In July 2002, a Joint European Working Group on the professional competencies of engineering geologists and geotechnical engineers was established...
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Interpretation of SCPT Data Using Cross-over and Cross-Correlation Methods
A common method of determining arrival times of polarized shear (S) waves in the seismic cone penetration (SCPT) test is the cross-over method. This...
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Engineering-Geological Properties of Carbonate Rocks in Relation to Weathering Intensity
For most of the purposes engineering-geological explorations are done on the surface. Afterwards the surface data get correlated with other...
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Hydrogeological Investigations in Deep Wells at the Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory
ANDRA (Agence Nationale pour la Gestion de Déchets Radioactifs) has developed an integrated approach to characterizing the hydrogeology of the...
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Current Issues Relating to the Professional Practice of Engineering Geology in Europe
The continuing internationalisation of the construction industry in which Engineering Geologists work has resulted in significant changes in the way...
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Self-healing of Fractures around Radioactive Waste Disposal in Clay Formations
The feasibility of storing radioactive waste in low permeable clays is studied extensively nowadays. Fracturing and healing of fractures is of great...
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Stability and Subsidence Assessment over Shallow Abandoned Room and Pillar Limestone Mines
In the region of Maastricht, both in The Netherlands and in Belgium, many areas are underlain by abandoned room and pillar mines, which have been...
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Engineering Geological Considerations in Tunnelling through Major Tectonic Thrust Zones - Cases along the Egnatia Motorway, Northern Greece
Tunnelling through tectonic shear zones is always a challenge due to the geometrical complexity and the presence of poor quality rock masses with...
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Contribution of On-Line Tools on Internet for the Teaching of Slopes and Tunnels Stability
We present there, the co-operative works done since several years, for building e-learning tools for slope stability and underground works. The aim...
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3 Stumbling into the MEP Racket: An Historical Perspective
An historical tale is told of the author’s involvement with research on the possible application of a principle of maximum entropy production to...
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17 Entropy and Gaia: Is There a Link Between MEP and Self-Regulation in the Climate System?
The Gaia hypothesis posits that the Earth’s climate is self-regulating, while the maximum entropy production (MEP) principle suggests that the...
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4 Maximum Entropy Production and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Over the last 30 years empirical evidence in favour of the Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle for non-equilibrium systems has been...
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14 Biotic Entropy Production and Global Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions
Atmospheric conditions constrain biotic activity through incoming solar radiation, temperature, and soil water availability on land. At the same time...
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2 Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics in an Energy-Rich Universe
Free energy, the ability to do work, is the most universal currency known in the natural sciences. In an expanding, non-equilibrated Universe, it is...
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13 The Free-Energy Transduction and Entropy Production in Initial Photosynthetic Reaction
Initial photosynthetic reactions in bacterial photosynthesis are modeled in this chapter as transitions among discrete states of integral membrane...
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9 Water Vapor and Entropy Production in the Earth’s Atmosphere
This chapter investigates the production of entropy by moist processes in the Earth’s climate system. The atmospheric circulation can be considered...
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7 Entropy Production in Turbulent Mixing
We review the statement and application of a Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle for the modeling of turbulence. More specifically it applies...
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5 Using Ecology to Quantify Organization in Fluid Flows
Numerous applications of variational principles derived from physical thermodynamics have been made to the description of development in living...
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Java Tomography System (JaTS), a Seismic Tomography Software Using Fresnel Volumes, a Fast Marching Eikonal Solver and a Probabilistic Reconstruction Method: Conclusive Synthetic Test Cases
Problems related to landscape management, natural hazards and civil engineering involve subsurface structures that can be delineated by geophysical...
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Evaluation Concept and Testing Method for Heavy Metal Contaminant Transport in the Underground
The evaluation of the contaminant transport is dictated by the Federal Soil Protection Regulation (BBodSchV, 1999) for sites that are suspected to...