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Jean-Pierre MAGNAN: Chief civil engineer - Technical Director, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris - Professor of soil and rock mechanics at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France)
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Water belongs to many natural and life sciences. It is of interest to water resource managers, chemists, biologists, meteorologists, agricultural soil specialists, ecologists, sailors, etc. Civil engineers, on the other hand, are particularly familiar with water as a component of the soil and for its mechanical interactions with structures.
This article introduces the concepts used to describe the mechanical behavior of water in soils, in particular Darcy's law, the basis for the analysis of water flows in natural porous media; the fundamental equation of permanent flows in soils, its resolution methods and a few examples are studied. Finally, a few notions of hydrogeology useful for civil engineering studies are given.
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French Standards Association (Afnor)
- Sols : reconnaissance et essais. Essai de pompage. - NF P94-130 - 4-2000
- Sols : reconnaissance et essais. Essai d'eau Lugeon. - NF P94-131 - 9-1994
- Sols : reconnaissance et essais. Essai d'eau Lefranc. - NF P94-132 - 10-2000
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