UK-US workshop on Bio-Soil Interactions and Engineering

英美生物土壤相互作用与工程研讨会

基本信息

批准号：
EP/E031935/1
负责人：
Kenichi Soga
金额：
$ 3.94万
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2006 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE031935%2F1
关键词：
UK US workshop Bio Soil

项目摘要

The interaction of biological materials with geotechnical processes has long been ignored by geotechnical engineering and geosciences, and its importance is just beginning to be realised. Biological materials are unique by their innate characteristics of being self-active and re-growing within geotechnical soil matrices. The biological alteration of the mechanical and reactive behaviour of soils is thus a potential novel path for directed manipulation and improvement of soils. The scope of such intervention has the potential to address a wide range of soil quality and functions and the focus of this workshop is soil as a platform for the built environment. However, the science area we propose to develop is widely related to the performance of soil as a natural biological reactor. This provides a biotechnology approach that can be harnessed to geotechnical engineering, but also to manage a wide range of soil functions such as ecosystem nutrition, contaminant attenuation, carbon storage and flood mitigation. The soil environment is known to be exceptionally complex and heterogeneous in structure. Such complexity is essential to support plant and animal life by providing an intricate particle-pore matrix that consists of solid, liquid and gas phases for the effective cycling and storage of nutrients. This same complex soil matrix is also the fundamental building block for geotechnical engineering. With our increased understanding of soil microbial life this biological activity and its products can be harnessed to provide new innovative solutions for geotechnical problems as well as provide the tools for quantitative performance assessment of many types of soil function. Key to this approach is the need to move the study of soil as a bioreactor from interpretive to predictive capabilities. To address and explore this opportunity, integration of the sciences and engineering is necessary. The complexity of the processes cannot be sufficiently addressed within a single discipline. The purpose of this joint UK-US workshop is to bring together an appropriate blend of scientists and engineers within a creative, innovative environment in order to facilitate exploration and formation of research initiatives within the theme Bio-Soil Interactions and Engineering

生物材料与岩土工艺的相互作用长期以来被岩土工程和地球科学所忽略，其重要性才刚刚开始实现。生物材料是独一无二的，它们的天生特征是在岩土土壤矩阵中具有自动性和重新生长的特征。因此，土壤的机械和反应性行为的生物学改变是指导操纵和改善土壤的潜在新路径。这种干预的范围有可能解决广泛的土壤质量和功能，而该研讨会的重点是土壤作为建筑环境的平台。但是，我们建议开发的科学领域与土壤作为天然生物反应器的性能广泛相关。这提供了一种生物技术方法，可以利用岩土技术工程，还可以管理各种土壤功能，例如生态系统营养，污染物衰减，碳储存和缓解洪水。已知土壤环境在结构上非常复杂且异质。通过提供复杂的颗粒孔基质，该基质由固体，液体和气相提供有效的养分循环和储存，这对于支持动植物的生命至关重要。同样的复杂土壤基质也是岩土工程的基本构建基块。随着我们对土壤微生物寿命的越来越多的了解，可以利用这种生物活性及其产品为岩土技术问题提供新的创新解决方案，并为许多类型的土壤功能提供定量性能评估的工具。这种方法的关键是需要将土壤作为生物反应器的研究从解释性到预测能力。为了解决和探索这一机会，必须集成科学和工程。在单一学科中，过程的复杂性无法充分解决。这个联合英国 - 美国工作坊的目的是将科学家和工程师的适当融合在一起，以促进创新的，创新的环境，以促进主题生物 - 土壤互动和工程中研究计划的探索和形成