Geotechnics of Venice and Its Lagoon

Auteur

Paolo Simonini is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, and a full member of the Italian government's Council for Public Works.

Texte du rabat

This presents the complex phenomena occurring in the sensitive Venice silts and the geotechnical aspects of various environmental problems such as land subsidence and wetland surface reduction, and solutions such as the design of the tilting gate foundations against high tides and the restoration of the drainage system of Piazza San Marco.

Contenu

1. The recurrent flooding of the lagoon city. 2. Geology of the lagoon. 3. Subsidence of Venice. 4. Site and laboratory geotechnical investigations. 5. Venetian soil constitutive modelling. 6. Geotechnical behavior of defense structures. 7. Geotechnical monitoring of marshes and wetlands. 8. Long-term behavior of historical building foundations. 9. Safeguarding Piazza San Marco. 10. Concluding remarks.