Skip to main content
Skip header
Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Methods of Hydrogeological and Engineering Survey

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0476/02
Abbreviation MHGIGP
Course title Methods of Hydrogeological and Engineering Survey
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marian Marschalko, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Purpose complexis survey methods (field testing, laboratory testing).
2. Resources archive dates and possibilities actual information systems.
3. Kinds, periods, purposes and results of investigations, their presentations, composition of final reports.
4. Exploratory works for constructions in I. geotechnical category.
5. Exploratory works for constructions in II and III. geotechnical category.
6. Deep foundation.
7. Line traffic construction.
8. Landslides.
9. Engineering nets.
10. Hydrotechnics constructions.
11. Special constructions.
12. Graveyards.
13. Investigations and activities for landscape planning.
14. Water Infiltration.
15. Construction of surface and underground wastes yards.
16. Investigation and saving groundwater pollution.
17. Small, individual water resources.
18. Water resources for collective supply.
19. Thermal and acidulous waters.
20.Legislative frames of survey methods, law recipes and standards.

Literature

DAILY, W., RAMIREZ, A., BINLEY, A., LABRECQUE, D. Electrical Resistance Tomography; The Leading Edge, 2004, 23(5), 438–442 pp.
GONZALES de VALLEJO, L., I.: FERRER, M.: Geological Engineering. CRC Press/Balkema, Netherland, 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-41352-7
KELLY, W. E., MAREŠ, S.: Applied Geophysics in Hydrogeological and Engineering Practice. Developments in Water Science, 1993, 44, 1-289 pp.
WEST, T. R.: Geology applied to engineering. Prentice Hall, Inc., USA, 1995. ISBN 0-02-425881-4

Advised literature

BLÁHA, P., MÜLLER, K.: Application of Geophysical Methods in Geotechnic and Construction, EGRSE, 2003, 1 – 2.
LOVRIE, W.: Fundamentals of Geophysics, Second edition, Cambridge: University Press, 2007.
SCHROTT, L., SASS, O.: Application of field geophysics in geomorphology: Advances and limitations exemplified by case studies, Geomorphology, 2008, 93(1-2), 55–73 pp.
PARASNIS, D. S.: Principles of Applied Geophysics, Chapman and Hall, London, UK, 5th edition, 1997.