Chapter 3
Aquifer Mechanics and Land Subsidence due to Groundwater
Publication: Investigation of Land Subsidence due to Fluid Withdrawal
Abstract
This chapter focuses on aquifer mechanics and land subsidence resulting from aquifer system compaction caused by groundwater withdrawals. It provides details on how the various approaches to analyzing and modeling deformation of aquifer systems are derived from the basic relations between head, stress, compressibility, and groundwater flow. Specific emphasis is on the hydrogeologic approach and regional aquifer system compaction, but many links to the soils engineering and geotechnical approaches are included. In addition, emphasis is given to the hydrogeologic approach that is associated with the regional nature of groundwater extraction processes. The chapter also includes an assessment of the use of stress–strain relations to calibrate storage and compressibility parameters of aquifer systems with certain assumptions.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Compacted soils
- Compression
- Continuum mechanics
- Deformation (mechanics)
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering mechanics
- Flow (fluid dynamics)
- Fluid dynamics
- Fluid mechanics
- Geohazards
- Geomechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Groundwater
- Groundwater depletion
- Groundwater flow
- Hydrogeology
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Land subsidence
- Soil mechanics
- Soils (by type)
- Solid mechanics
- Structural dynamics
- Structural mechanics
- Water (by type)
- Water and water resources
- Water management
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