Course overview

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Modules from the Bachelor's program

- Manifestations of groundwater

- Formation of unconsolidated and consolidated rock, composition and structure of unconsolidated and consolidated rock, soil as a multi-phase system

- Geological-geophysical and geotechnical subsoil exploration methods, presentation and interpretation

- Classification systems and classification of soil and rock according to relevant standards

- Structural properties of loose and solid rock

- Fundamentals of the soil mechanical behavior of loose rock

- Soil mechanical testing (laboratory and field tests) and independent performance of selected tests in the laboratory

- Influence of groundwater and groundwater flow

- Stresses in soil, Terzaghi's principle, stress propagation from structural loads

- Deformation and strength behavior of soils; calculation of deformation, consolidation

- Determination of limit stress states; classical theories and methods for calculating earth pressure and earth resistance, consideration of selected special cases

- Safety concept according to Eurocode 7 and DIN 1054; introduction to relevant European and national geotechnical standards and regulations

- Structural design, construction and dimensioning of shallow and deep foundations, flexible excavation shoring, embankments, groundwater drainage

- Procedures and test methods for earthworks, structural design of earthworks

- Deepening and application of the teaching content from the geotechnics module to practical issues

- Design and dimensioning of geotechnical structures, including under complex or special boundary conditions (shallow and pile foundations, embankments, excavation shoring and groundwater conservation)

- Introduction to a geotechnical software package using selected project examples

- Fundamentals of geotechnical project management: geotechnical reporting, evaluation of project information, project management process

- Working on a real project in small groups with presentation of interim results and writing a project report as a term paper

Modules from the Master's program

- Design of surface foundations/foundation slabs

- Deep foundations (axial and horizontally loaded piles, pile production, pile test loads, group action, combined pile-slab foundations)

- Low-deformation excavation shoring (bored pile walls, diaphragm walls), deep excavations, excavations in water

- Building with geosynthetics, methods for slope and terrain stabilization

- Ground improvement, building in existing structures, renovation of foundations, metrological monitoring

- Mechanical description of stress states, typical stress-deformation behavior of soils
- Structure and formulation of simple and selected higher-order constitutive laws of soil mechanics
- Fundamentals of numerical modeling: system definition, boundary conditions, components and mesh generation,
calibration of the material models, verification of the numerical model, evaluation and interpretation of the results
- Introduction to the FE program Plaxis 3D and application to selected problems
- Independent processing of a project task as part of a term paper in small groups

- Properties of solid rock, influence of water

- Field and laboratory tests to determine rock mechanical parameters, classification

- Interface structure, measurement and representation, stability considerations

- Rock construction methods, in particular slope stabilization, construction in karst areas

- Tunnelling methods in tunnel construction, types of shoring

- Rock stresses, tunnel statics and basic principles of design

- Structures in and on the water, e.g. foundations for onshore/offshore wind turbines, river and sea dykes, dams, shoreline facilities

- Environmental impacts and resulting load influences on soil and geotechnical structures, basic principles of load determination

- Methods of subsoil investigation on and in the water

- Load-bearing behavior under monotonic and transient loads, basics of dimensioning and dimensioning methods

- Special manufacturing and installation methods

Modules in the Master Engineering of Hydro-Environmental Extremes

- uncertainty quantification and assessment

- Bayesion theory for model parametrization

- stochastic modeling of time-dependent environmental processes

- uncertainty in water resourses-related problems

- predictive uncertainty in flow forecasting

- dynamic programming in water resources management under uncertainty

- relationship between formation history of the ground and the composition of soil

Discussion of hydro-environmental risks to civil engineering structures
Introduction to the objectives of probabilistic design of civil structures
Theoretical Background of Probability Theory from a civil engineering perspective and steps into a risk analysis
Current German safety standards and generally applicable international safety standards
Basics of reliability-based design and assessment at three levels (risk informed; reliability based; semi-probabilistic)
Describing uncertainties in (geotechnical) design and assessment
Fundamentals and application of reliability-based methods (Monte-Carlo method, FORM, SORM, ...)
Introduction into appropriate numerical tools for probabilistic analyses
Additional seminars with experts from practical application