Special Engineering Geology

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	541-0498/04
Abbreviation	SIG
Course title	Special Engineering Geology
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Marian Marschalko, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Urban planning, project documentation, legislation to implement exploration.
2. Principles of projecting exploration.
3. Legislation.
4. EG documents for calculating the carrying capacity, compressibility.
5. Stability of foundation soils.
6. Conditions for digging pits, making embankments, trenches - dissolubility , workability, consolidating, etc.
7. Methods of investigation and assessment of foundation conditions.
8. civil construction - residential units, buildings, utilities.
9. industrial construction - heavy facilities, heating plant, cold storage, etc.
10. communication construction - highways, roads, railways, bridges.
11. underground structures - tunnels, underground caverns.
12. hydrotechnical structures - dams, water pumping power plants, canals, waste dump.
13. Exploration and evaluation of the geological environment for remediation of slope deformation, reclamation of undermined areas.

Literature

KNIGHT, M. J. et al. (1983): Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology, Enviromental Geology. Geol. Soc. of Australia, Sydney.
WYLLIE, D. C. (1992): Foundations on rock. Spon, London.
BELL, F. G. et al.(1992): Engineering in Rock Masses. Butterworth, Oxford.
BLYTH. F. G. H. (1984): A Geology for Engineers. Arnold, London.

Advised literature

BLYTH. F. G. H. (1984): A Geology for Engineers. Arnold, London.
GIANI, P. G.(1992): Rock Slope Stability Analyssis. Balkema, Rotterdam.
WYLLIE, D. C. (1992): Foundations on rock. Spon, London.
BELL, F. G. et al.(1992): Engineering in Rock Masses. Butterworth, Oxford.

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