Earth Structures
Lecture term: winter trimester
Extent: 2,0 TWH lecture, 2,0 TWH exercise
Contents:
- Groundwork in route works and traffic route engineering
- Trenches
- Dams/Embankments
- Slope stabilisation
- Tunnel erosion
- Assessment and recalculation of existing infrastructure
- Restructuring/Strengthening of dams
- Landfill construction
Soil dynamics
Lecture term: spring trimester
Extent: 2,0 TWH lecture, 2,0 TWH exercise
Contents:
- Foundations of theory of oscillations
- Soil behaviour under dynamic load
- Machine foundations
- Vibration assessment
- Introduction to earthquake engineering
- Dynamic piling load tests
- Deformation accumulation
- Plastodynamics
Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering
Lecture term: autumn trimester
Extent: 2,0 TWH lecture, 2,0 TWH exercise
Contents:
- Numerical algorithms for the solution of geotechnical boundary value problem
- Foundations of the finite-element-method
- Web-finesse, boundary conditions, errors
- Material models of soils and their calibration
- Contact models for boundary surface soil-infrastructure
- Modelling of typical geotechnical components/ construction in numerical model
- Case studies
- Further numerical methods in geotechnics (coupled methods, web-free methods)
Advanced Soil Mechanics and Environmental Geotechnics
Lecture term: winter trimester
Extent: 2,0 TWH lecture, 2,0 TWH exercise
Contents:
- Stress- and strain-conditions in element Experiments
- Soil behaviour in undrained conditions
- Soil behaviour during cyclic loading
- Partially saturated soils
- Soil mechanics in multi-phase-mediums
- Geotechnical modelling experimentation
- Causes for contamination in sub soil
- Assessment and determination of contamination
- Measures for remediation of contamination
Letzte Änderung: 30. August 2023