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
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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