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Fields of Application and Plants For Soil Bioengineering Control Works

Soil bioengineering is a discipline of civil engineering that uses living plant materials and their communities in natural constructions to achieve technological, ecological, economic, and design goals, especially for slope stabilization and erosion control. It can sometimes replace classical engineering works and is widely used throughout the world for erosion control and stabilizing unstable slopes. Soil bioengineering involves combining biological systems with engineering principles to restore soils and protect water resources in a natural and environmentally friendly way.

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Fields of Application and Plants For Soil Bioengineering Control Works

Soil bioengineering is a discipline of civil engineering that uses living plant materials and their communities in natural constructions to achieve technological, ecological, economic, and design goals, especially for slope stabilization and erosion control. It can sometimes replace classical engineering works and is widely used throughout the world for erosion control and stabilizing unstable slopes. Soil bioengineering involves combining biological systems with engineering principles to restore soils and protect water resources in a natural and environmentally friendly way.

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Soil bioengineering is a discipline of civil engineering.

It pursues technological, ecological,


economic as well as design goals and seeks to achieve these primarily by making use of living
materials, i.e. seeds, plants, part of plants and plant communities, and employing them in near–
natural constructions while exploiting the manifold abilities inherent in plants.
Soilbioengineering may sometimes be a substitute for classical engineering works; however, in
most cases it is a meaningful and necessary method of complementing the latter. Its application
suggests itself in all fields of soil and hydraulic engineering, especially for slope and embankment
stabilization and erosion control.[1]

Soil bioengineering is the use of living plant materials to provide some engineering function. Soil
bioengineering is an effective tool for treatment of a variety of unstable and / or eroding sites. Soil
bioengineering techniques have been used for many centuries. More recently Schiechtl (1980)
has encouraged the use of soil bioengineering with a variety of European examples. Soil
bioengineering is now widely practiced throughout the world for the treatment of erosion and
unstable slopes.[2][3]

Fields of Application and Plants for Soil Bioengineering


Control Works[edit]
Soil Bioengineering methods can be applied wherever the plants which are used as living
building materials are able to grow well and develop. This is the case in tropical, subtropical
and temperate zones whereas there are obvious limits in dry and cold regions, i.e. where arid,
semi–arid and frost zones prevail. In exceptional cases, lack of water may be compensated for
by watering or irrigation. In Europe, dry conditions limiting application exist in the Mediterranean
as well as in some inner alpine and eastern European snowy regions. However, limits are most
frequently imposed in alpine and arctic regions. These can usually be clearly noticed by the
limited growth of woody plants (forest, tree and shrub lines) and the upper limits of
closed turf cover. The more impoverished a region is in species, the less suited it is for the
application of bioengineering methods.

Functions and Effects of Soil Bioengineering


Structures[edit]
Technical functions[edit]

 protection of soil surface from erosion by wind, precipitation, frost and flowing water
 protection from rock fall
 elimination or binding of destructive mechanical forces
 reduction of flow velocity along banks
 surface and/or deep soil cohesion and stabilization
 drainage
 protection from wind
 aiding the deposition of snow, drift sand and sediments
 increasing soil roughness and thus preventing avalanche release

Apart from these, ecological functions are gaining in importance, particularly as these can be
fulfilled to a very limited extent only by classical engineering constructions

Ecological functions[edit]

 improvement of water regime by improved soil interception and storage capability as well as
water
 consumption by plants
 soil drainage
 protection from wind
 protection from ambient air pollution
 mechanical soil amelioration by the roots of plants
 balancing of temperature conditions in near–ground layers of air and in the soil
 shading
 improvement of nutrient content in the soil and thus of soil fertility on previously raw soils
 balancing of snow deposits
 noise protection
 yield increase on neighbouring cropland
Landscaping functions[edit]

 healing of wounds inflicted on the landscape by disasters and humans (exploitation of


mineral resources, construction work, deposition of overburden, tunnel excavation material,
industrial and domestic waste)
 integration of structures into the landscape
 concealment of offending structures
 enrichment of the landscape by creating new features and structures, shapes and colours of
vegetation
Economic effects[edit]
Bioengineering control works are not always necessarily cheaper in construction when compared
to classical engineering structures. However, when taking into account their lifetime including
their service and maintenance, they will normally turn out to be more economical.[citation needed] Their
special advantages are:

 lower construction costs compared to “hard” constructions


 lower maintenance and rehabilitation costs
 creation of useful green areas and woody plant populations on previously derelict land
 Useful for income generation

The result of soil bioengineering protection works are living systems which develop further and
maintain their balance by natural succession (i.e. by dynamic self–control, without artificial input
of energy). If the right living but also non–living building materials and the appropriate types of
construction are chosen, exceptionally high sustainability requiring little maintenance effort can
be achieved. [4][5]

SOIL BIOENGINEERING – TEKNIK REKAYASA TANAH YANG NATURAL


Posted in Cocomesh by admin

Saat ini, teknik rekayasa pemulihan tanah yang alami menjadi tren positif, sifatnya yang ramah lingkungan
serta mampu menimbulkan vegetasi baru menjadi andalan dalam pelestarian lingkungan. Teknik ini
dikenal dengan Soil Bioengineering.

Perhatikan contoh apliklasi gambar berikut ini:

Soil Bioengineering sendiri berarti pendekatan interdisipliner untk pemulihan lingkungan yang melibatkan
penggabungan sistem biologis dengan prinsip-prinsip rekayasa dalam rangka untuk mengembalikan tanah
juga melindungi sumber air. Teknik ini satu-satunya yang ramah lingkungan untuk pemulihan tepi air yang
lebih rendah seperti untuk tepi sungai, tepi pantai dan lahan basah lainnya. Teknik ini sangat bagus untuk
menumbuhkan vegetasi yang dapat mencegah erosi.

Produk yang digunakan adalah biodegradable, mampu terurai, namun tahan lama, sekitar 4-5 tahun,
sehingga mampu menunggu sampai terbentuknya vegetasi baru.

Metode ini selain kuat dan tahan lama, tetapi juga berkelanjutan, seperti mempercantik tepian air, juga
sebagai habitat satwa air dan darat, dan mampu menahan air.

Beberapa keuntungan lain dari teknik ini :


1. Mempertahankan ekosistem yang seimbang
2. Pemeliharaan secara alami dan menghasilkan lingkungan yang sehat
3. Mengurangi penguapan dan pemantulan panas
4. Menghasilkan aplikasi sintetis yang menyenangkan
5. Meningkatkan infiltrasi / penyerapan air
6. Sebagai penyaring endapan dan meningkatkan kualitas air
7. Mendukung kegiatan rekreasi
8. Mengakomodasi habitat bagi satwa liar dan ikan
9. Memberikan ketenangan pikiran
10. Menciptakan lingkungan yang segar dan mengurangi stres
Beberapa produk untuk teknik Soil Bioengineering

o Coir Roll / Sabut Gulungan


o Sabut Blok
o Sabut Bantal
o Kasur Sabut
o Cocosheet
o Cocomesh / Coir Geotextile / Coconet

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