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Monitoring and Back Analyses in Geotechnical Engineering

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 224-0906/02
Abbreviation MIAG
Course title Monitoring and Back Analyses in Geotechnical Engineering
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Eva Hrubešová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1 Overview of basic principles and methods of monitoring
2 Monitoring stress in the rock environment
3 Monitoring expression strain measurements in the rock mass and on the surface
4 Monitoring pore pressures and groundwater flow
5 Methods of monitoring the stress-strain state of the reinforcement
6 seismological monitoring
7 The project proposal for monitoring underground structures
8 The project proposal for the monitoring of slopes and embankments
9 Principles and methods of evaluation of the results of monitoring measurements
10 Methods and techniques of inverse analysis (sbližovací methods, using direct optimization procedure)

Literature

1. Dunnicliff, J. (1988): Geotechnical Instrumentation for Monitoring Field
Performance. Wiley, New York. ISBN 0-471-00546-0.

Advised literature

1. Lazebnik, G.E. (1998) :Monitoring of Soil-Structure Interaction. Chapman &
Hall, New York, 1998. ISBN 0-412-07431-1.