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Methods of Exploration Techniques

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0425/07
Abbreviation TPP
Course title Methods of Exploration Techniques
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Martin Klempa, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Exploratory technical works - objectives, methods, methods, content of exploratory geology
2. Methods of drilling and types of boreholes, application of drilling work
3. HG boreholes, ways of drilling water wells, construction of HG wells
4. Filters in HG wells, measurements in HG wells
5. Drilling in IG and geotechnics - purposes
6. Slope stability - drilling, methods
7. Probing - drilling and driven probes with the yield of rock samples
8. Standard penetration probe
9. Geotechnical field tests - aim, purpose, methods
10. Presiometry and dilatometry, press loading test and measurement of rock mass stress
11. Penetration probing, plate load test, propeller shear tests and water pressure tests
12. Drilling works in construction
13. Piles and jet grouting - characteristics, anchoring and underground walls, trenchless technologies

Povinná literatura

Hayward Paul: Directional Drilling – back to basics, No Dig International, Vol.11 No.5, May 2000, p.28, 30,31.
Mazáč, J. (2005): Drilling Technologies, university mimeographed; VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Publishing Centre of VŠB-TU Ostrava.
Klempa, M.; Bujok, P.; Kovář, L.; Struna, J.; Pinka, J.: Fundamentals of Onshore Driling, FRVŠ, projekt č. 2212/2012. (http://geologie.vsb.cz/DRILLING/index.htm).
Pinka, J., Wittenberger, G., Engel, J. (2007): Borehole Mining, university textbook, Publishing Centre/AMS, F BERG TU in Košice.

Doporučená literatura

DCCA, 1998: A summary of Guidelines for Successful Mid-Sized Directional Drilling Projects, Directional Drilling, 1998, iss. 2, s. 43-46.
Huey D.P., Hair J.D., McLeod K.B.: Installation Loading and Stress Analysis Involved with Pipelines Installated by Horizontal Directional Drilling, Interntional NO-DOG 96 Conference Papers, New Orleans, NASTT, 1996, s.36-60.
Ďurica, D.; Suk, M.: Vrty v geologické praxi. Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno 2011. ISBN 978-80-7028-381-3 
Lyons, W. C.: Air and Gas Drilling Manual – Applications for Oil and Gas Recovery Wells and Geothermal Fluids Recovery Wells. Elsevier, USA, 2009. ISBN 978-0-12-370895-3