Unsaturated Zone Hydrology for Scientists and Engineers

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This book presents systematic, integrated A-to-Z coverage of state-of-the-art unsaturated zone hydrology. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it provides both a soil physics and an engineering approach to unsaturated zone hydrology. Coverage begins with the basic physical properties and the behavior of clays, and moves on to contaminant transport and other parameters such as spatial variability, scaling, and fractals in the earth sciences. KEY TOPICS: Details analytical solutions for seven analytical infiltration models. Provides a comprehensive description and equations for performing a detailed water balance used to size and design water-storage facilities, reclamation zones for waste-storage facilities, and other water-management facilities. Presents five analytical models for both deterministic and probabilistic solutions to liquid/vapor flow in the unsaturated zone -- including unique coverage of the derivation and use of a three-dimensional analytical solution for flow of NAPLs in the unsaturated zone. Presents eight analytical models to assess unsaturated zone contaminant levels which are permissible to regulators for protection of underlying ground water. Includes a detailed description of the current technology of site characterization and monitoring devices used in unsaturated zone research -- including illustrations, diagrams of connections, and advantages and disadvantages of each. Illustrates real-world problems typical of sites the authors have worked with during the last 10 years. A reference for practicing engineers and environmental law firms.

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Splendid Text.......2004-04-01

Like calculus, unsaturated zone hydrology can only be made so easy. As a soils professor and instructor of this subject, I have waited for 20 years for a text of this sort to come along. It gives me the flexibility to teach both undergraduate and graduate classes. For the students there are many worked examples and for the instructors a great manual that you can order separately. I get the best of both worlds and the students have what is in my opinion, the finest text and reference in this field. Many kudos to the authors for a job well done!

Great text for both teaching and students.......2004-01-23

I was unable to attend a college in my area that offered an unsaturated zone hydrology or soil physics course. As a result, I purchased several books on the subject including those by Hillel, Jury, and Stephens. While they were useful, it was difficult to grasp the material within certain areas then, at the suggestion of a friend I purchased this book. I found it much easier to follow than other texts and very informative both as a study tool and a professional reference for instructors and consultants.

I must admit that the previous review from the skier guy in Denver kinda turned me off, but I bought the book anyway and have never regretted it. Actually, I was able to discuss some aspects with the authors and found their insights particularly useful. Without doubt the material is difficult, but it's laid out well here. I found the answered questions very useful before trying the additional questions to which no answers are given.

While the book is likely not perfect I can say to the guy from Denver that if you were lucky enough to take this class from the author then, kudos to you. Also, one thing I have learned is that it's extremely difficult to have as he put it "a decent and intense class" without a good text. My experience has been that the class generally follows the text. If one is poor, usually both are poor.

My recommendation is that this is a great text and one won't go wrong by purchasing it. In my opinion the best chapters are 1-3, 7-10, and 13, but that those are where my skills are concentrated and they are all well thought out and well written. The list of symbols is also very useful although quite lengthy as they include soil science, hydrology, and engineering symbols for the same areas. I didn't catch that at first. I really like the book compared to others I've studied. Best of all, it helped me master this area and gained me a $10k per year raise in my firm.

4.5 stars? You have got to be kidding me........2003-04-17

Without question, this book is useful to professional vadose zone scientists as a refrence. I'll even go so far as to say it's the least-bad unsaturated zone book on the market. It scores points for being comprehensive and thorough. The book also looks nice and has good diagrams. Many of us have it on our book shelves here at work. I find myself referring to it occasionally, years after I first studied the text in grad school.
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After *extensive* study of this text, I hate it. It is very hard to follow for even the sharpest of grad students / hydrologists. For instance, the index of symbols has over 500 entries (thank god there is an index). I found the explanations to be "on a different level" from 95% of the audience of the book, which severely limits its usefulness. This is no "Freeze and Cherry" textbook. And no, I'm no dummy who got frustrated w/ the content and gave up on it - I took Dr. Tindall's unsaturated zone course, persevered, and recieved an A for my efforts.

Once again, the book is good for a refrence if you already know your unsaturated zone science, but forget trying to learn unsat zone hydrolgy from this text unless you have a great prof or 170 IQ. Looking at my book shelf, I have to put this text in the bottom 40%, 2 stars.

Well-prepared and well-presented summary of unsaturated zone.......2001-12-06

(...) Unsaturated Zone Hydrology for Scientists and Engineers was written from a multidisciplinary perspective. It was designed for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a wide range of backgrounds and interests. The book could be used in an introductory course that teaches the major processes in the unsaturated zone and the design of field experiments. It is also suitable for a more advanced course on modeling transport of water, air, solute, and heat in the unsaturated zone.

The book has an attractive cover with an artist’s rendition of the major processes that occur in the unsaturated zone beneath urban and rural areas. The images on the cover depict well the topics covered. The table of contents is easy to follow and quickly reveals that the book’s subject matter is presented in a logical order. Following the introduction, which includes a brief history of unsaturated zone hydrology, are chapters on the physical properties and characteristics of soils, the behavior of clay-water systems, and the energy status and chemical properties of water. These first few chapters provide an excellent foundation for subsequent ones on water flow (including both unsaturated and saturated zones) and the transport of heat, gas, and contaminants. The book contains another six chapters on topics ranging from soil remediation techniques to spatial variability, scaling, and fractals. A list of symbols is given in one of the appendices, which readers will find helpful.

Three aspects of the book I particularly like. First, questions are given at the end of many sections to test the student’s understanding of the material. Detailed answers to these questions are given at the end of each chapter, as well as additional questions that could be assigned to the students. Second, the book covers a wide range of topics, yet discusses them in sufficient detail to be useful as both a teaching aid and a reference book. Third, the book contains a pleasant blend of theoretical and practical information.

This book is a well-prepared and well-presented summary of unsaturated zone hydrology. It covers a fairly broad range of topics and will be of interest to scientists and engineers engaged in a wide variety of unsaturated zone studies. Even the price is quite reasonable! (...)

Very complete, an excellent teaching and reference text........2001-11-10

As a professor of hydrology I have found this book to be the most complete and up-to-date that can be found. I own 25 texts in hydrology, unsaturated zone hydrology, and soil physics, including several dealing with contaminant transport. This book is well written and comprehensive, yet allows me the flexibility to teach courses based on student knowledge. I found this difficult in the past because many students entered our program with no soils or hydrology background. The first few chapters of this book gives the essentials required in these areas and gets the students quickly up to speed.

There are many completed problem sets in the text that show the students how to logically approach and solve very complex problems. The instructor manual that is available separately for the text has been a life saver. It is accurate and allows me to use my own problem sets that I have designed and collected over the years and it lets me supplement with problems that are worked-out in detail within the manual.

For instructors who wish to teach a more advanced modelling course, this book will allow teaching a highly advanced course if desired.

I found a few errors in nomenclature and some inacuracies in a few of the problems. These were minor and were also listed in the errata of the book, which unfortunately was not shipped from the publisher, but obtained from the authors whom I wrote. They quickly sent it to me.

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Unsaturated Soil Mechanics is the first book to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of unsaturated soil mechanics.
* Offers extensive sample problems with an accompanying solutions manual.
* Brings together the rapid advances in research in unsaturated soil mechanics in one focused volume.
* Covers advances in effective stress and suction and hydraulic conductivity measurement.

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save your money.......2006-03-11

Save your money and time, buy Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils (Hardcover)by D. G. Fredlund, H. Rahardjo, this is a better book.

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Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils
The best book of unsaturated soil I have ever seen !

Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils
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The principles and concepts for unsaturated soils are developed as extensions of saturated soils. Addresses problems where soils have a matric suction or where pore-water pressure is negative. Covers theory, measurement and use of the fundamental properties of unsaturated soils--permeability, shear strength and volume change. Includes a significant amount of case studies.

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Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils.......2007-09-19

The book is classic. But i got the almost photocopied version book which is made me a bit upset.

The best book of unsaturated soil I have ever seen !.......2000-07-14

If you want to study unsaturated soil, this is the book that you must have. Excellent work !

Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies: Proceedings of the International Conference "From Experimental Evidence towards Numerical Modeling of Unsaturated ... 2003 (Springer Proceedings in Physics)

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Understanding the behaviour of unsaturated soils is becoming exclusively essential for geotechnical engineers and designers. This book includes the Proceedings of the International Conference "From Experimental Evidence Towards Numerical Modeling of Unsaturated Soils" uniting researchers and practitioners in geotechnical engineering on a single platform and discussing the problems associated with unsaturated soils. The objectives of the International Conference were: (a) to promote unsaturated soil mechanics for practical application, (b) to exchange experiences in experimental unsaturated soil mechanics and numerical modelling, (c) to discuss application of unsaturated soil mechanics to a variety of problems. The conference was additionally a status report in the frame of the DFG research group "Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils". The conference was organised under the auspices of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the National German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) and funded by the German Research Fund (DFG).

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This book presents the Proceedings of an International Symposium on 'Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics' held in Trento, Italy, on 27-29 June 2005. This event was organized by the Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France) under the auspices of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and the TC6 Committee on Unsaturated Soils. The topics tackled by the papers include suction measurement, suction control, mechanical and hydraulic laboratory testing, geoenvironmental testing, and field-testing. All papers were peer-reviewed by internationally recognised researchers. This book will be of help to researchers and engineers working in the field of hydraulic and mechanics of unsaturated soil. Suction Measurement Suction Control Mechanical Testing in Unsaturated Soils Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Soils Hydraulic Testing in Unsaturated Soils Hydraulic Behaviour of Unsaturated Soils Microstructure investigation Geo-environmental testing Field measurement and monitoring in field applications

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These proceedings are a continuation of the series of International Conferences in Germany entitled "Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils." The primary objective is to discuss and understand unsaturated soil behaviour such that engineered activities are made better with times in terms of judgement and quality. We all realise by now that in addition to the knowledge on the classical concepts, it becomes an enormous challenging task to adapt convincing new concepts and present them in such a way that it could be used in engineering practices.

The experimental studies reported primarily focus on the role of microstructure and fabric for the complex coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour of cohesive frictional materials. Several papers consider the relevance of temperature affecting the constitutive behaviour of clays. Common features of state of the art theoretical and numerical approaches, including theory of porous media and mixture theory, intend to describe the complex multi-field problems of fully coupled thermo-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical initial - boundary value problems. Applications include highly toxic waste disposals, slope stability problems and contaminants transport in porous media.

These proceedings would have been not possible without financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG). We gratefully acknowledge the support of ISSMGE, especially TC6 "Unsaturated Soils".

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A very good book.......2003-12-10

Recently, I read this book in our library and I found that this book emphasis on gas and water flow through discontinuities. This book gave me insight of stress induced permeability of rock joints and I find that this book is very useful for those who research on permeability-deformation characteristics of rocks. Only draw back of this book is that it does not give detailed derivations of mathematical equations.

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These proceedings would have been not possible without financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG). We gratefully acknowledge the support of ISSMGE, especially TC6 "Unsaturated Soils".

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