Course Details

Experiment in Geotechnics (The Course of ESF)

Academic Year 2025/26

VFC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Students acquire to use contemporary methods for foundation soil study. Integral parts will be also observation method (mathematical and experimental modeling and field monitoring). Student will be lead to teamwork during the design of the geotechnical structure. The learning process will respect environmental aspects too. Supposed solutions of designs will be discussed with experinced experts during field works and excursions. Students obtain feedback for their designs.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vladislav Horák, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

The students have to know basics of geology, physics, solid mechanics, elasticity and plasticity and geomechanics (soil/rock mechanics).

Aims

The aim of the subject is increasing of the level of theoretical preparation of students for solution of practical tasks, preparation for in situ operation and development of teamwork. Students obtain by the passing of the subject current overview about contemporary techniques of testing and monitoring of foundation soil. Suppose solution will be dicussed with experinced experts. Integral part of the subject is terrain work and field excursion.
Students acquire at course to use contemporary methods for foundation soil study. Integral parts will be also observation method (mathematical and experimental modeling and field monitoring). Student will be lead to teamwork during the design of the geotechnical structure. The learning process will respect environmental aspects too. Supposed solutions of designs will be discussed with experinced experts during field works and excursions. Students obtain feedback for their designs.

Basic Literature

ZÁRUBA, Quido a MENCL, Vojtěch. Inženýrská geologie. Academia, Praha, 1974. (cs)
ONDRÁŠIK, Rudolf a RYBÁŘ, Jan. Dynamická inžinierska geológia. Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, Bratislava, 1991. ISBN 80-08-00366-9. (sk)
GOODMAN, Richard E. Engineering geology. J. Wiley & sons, 1993. ISBN 0-471-54424-8.  (en)
WOOD, D. M. Geotechnical modelling. Spon Press, 2004. (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/294865

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Geotechnical investigation according to DIN EN 1997-2
  • 2. Geophysical survey methods
  • 3. Conventional survey methods
  • 4. Monitoring of the geological environment
  • 5. Landslides and rock collapse I.
  • 6. Landslides and rock collapse II.
  • 7. Physical model
  • 8. Numerical model
  • 9. Numerical model
  • 10.Case studies
  • 11.Field excursion

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Preparation for foundation soil investigation
  • 2. Investigation of foundation soil - methods
  • 3. Laboratory testing of soils - sample preparation, methods, evaluation
  • 4. Monitoring of rock environment - theory
  • 5. Monitoring of rock environment - practical application
  • 6. Hydraulic parameters of soils and rocks
  • 7. Physical modeling - introduction, theory
  • 8. Physical modeling - methods, risks, practical application
  • 9. Mathematical modeling - introduction, theory
  • 10.Mathematical modeling selected geotechnical problems
  • 11.Case study - field excursion