Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
03 Jun 1993, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Abstract
The continuous development and industrial changes in Saudi Arabia necessitates large ground water exploitation and brought about significant changes to the ground water regime. The alarming evidence of rising shallow ground water level and the widespread structural problems have mitigate the extra demand to develop special geotechnical awareness, standard testing and designing procedures to minimize the impact of wetting on soil behavior in the hot climate region. Field and laboratory test results on typical soil samples have established the influence of rising moisture and exemplified the adverse levels of collapse manifested by the large reduction in shearing strength and the considerable volume change upon wetting. The sensitivity of the aggressive and structurally vulnerable soil in the area to the water ingress have been evaluated. Geotechnical procedures to estimate collapse potential with means to control and limit the rising ground water level have been addressed.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Stipho, A. S., "The Impact of Rising Ground Water Level on the Geotechnical Behavior of Soil in Hot Climate Regions" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 11.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session08/11
The Impact of Rising Ground Water Level on the Geotechnical Behavior of Soil in Hot Climate Regions
St. Louis, Missouri
The continuous development and industrial changes in Saudi Arabia necessitates large ground water exploitation and brought about significant changes to the ground water regime. The alarming evidence of rising shallow ground water level and the widespread structural problems have mitigate the extra demand to develop special geotechnical awareness, standard testing and designing procedures to minimize the impact of wetting on soil behavior in the hot climate region. Field and laboratory test results on typical soil samples have established the influence of rising moisture and exemplified the adverse levels of collapse manifested by the large reduction in shearing strength and the considerable volume change upon wetting. The sensitivity of the aggressive and structurally vulnerable soil in the area to the water ingress have been evaluated. Geotechnical procedures to estimate collapse potential with means to control and limit the rising ground water level have been addressed.
