Recent Advances in Nature-Inspired Solutions for Ground Engineering (NiSE)
geotechnical
Soil remediation
0211 other engineering and technologies
Biomimicry, Soil, Improvement, Self-heal, Natural
Conservation
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
02 engineering and technology
SOIL-MOISTURE
Geotechnics
SOIL PRODUCTION
510
Soil
Self-heal
SOIL MODIFICATION
SOIL DEFORMATION
Smart & Sustainable Planet
Biomimicry
Improvement
SOIL FAUNA
SOIL STRUCTURE
GB
SOIL HYDRAULIC-PROPERTIES
SOIL WATER
SOIL PROPERTIES
Soil Mechanics & Foundations
Soil processes
nature inspired
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
620
SOIL
Environmental Geotechnics
TA
Erosion
SOIL PARAMETERS
Soil Sciences
Natural
Constitutive modelling in geotechnical engineering
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
SOIL CONTAMINATION
Soil carbon sequestration
Soil Sciences, Conservation
Soil Sciences, Erosion
UNSATURATED SOIL
ARCTIC SOILS
DOI:
10.1007/s40891-021-00349-9
Publication Date:
2021-12-31T15:02:26Z
AUTHORS (19)
ABSTRACT
The ground is a natural grand system; it is composed of myriad constituents that aggregate to form several geologic and biogenic systems. These systems operate independently and interplay harmoniously via important networked structures over multiple spatial and temporal scales. This paper presents arguments and derivations couched by the authors, to first give a better understanding of these intertwined networked structures, and then to give an insight of why and how these can be imitated to develop a new generation of nature-symbiotic ground engineering techniques. The paper draws on numerous recent advances made by the authors, and others, in imitating forms (e.g. synthetic fibres that imitate plant roots), materials (e.g. living composite materials, or living soil that imitate fungi and microbes), generative processes (e.g. managed decomposition of construction rubble to mimic weathering of aragonites to calcites), and functions (e.g. recreating the self-healing, self-producing, and self-forming capacity of natural systems). Advances are reported in three categories of Materials, Models, and Methods (3Ms). A novel value-based appraisal tool is also presented, providing a means to vet the effectiveness of 3Ms as standalone units or in combinations.
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