Engineering Geology: Principles and Applications

This book aims to introduce the engineer and geologist to the complete principles of geology, to ensure that geological factors are taken into account, and to focus on them in various engineering works. These factors influence site selection, the design process, the construction phase, and facility operation, in addition to their importance in structure maintenance. Consequently, sufficient information is provided to be translated into engineering geological maps that represent the essential part of several projects. This book provides a sufficient understanding to form the engineering classification and properties of the minerals that make up rocks and their mechanical and natural properties. The book also explains the natural and mechanical properties of soil, its tests, groundwater reservoirs, its compositions, and its importance. This explanation is followed by an explanation of the use of modern technologies in site identification, linking them with global coordinates and representing them on surface features to draw contour maps for topographic sections. This aims to create geological maps with a typical drawing guide that provides sufficient geological information, enough to predict geoengineering phenomena, estimate their severity through continuous ground and space monitoring, conduct periodic tests on sites, develop mathematical models for these phenomena, process them based on experimental data, and then derive appropriate solutions to mitigate or reduce their occurrence.