224-0938 – Environmental Problems in Geotechnics (EPG)
| Gurantor department | Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Naďa Rapantová, CSc. |
| Study level | postgraduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Learning outcomes of the course are to extend the students' ability to analyze impacts of geotechnical structures on the natural environment, to design preventive and reparative measures in case of anthropogenic influences as well as geohazards.
Teaching methods
Individual consultations
Project work
Summary
The course focuses on the impacts of the geotechnical structures on the natural environment. The possibilities of their prediction and the reduction of human impacts on the environment are analyzed. Students will extend their knowledge both in the field of geohazard origin (slope deformations, floods etc.), and anthropogenous impacts of structures (changes in hydrogeological conditions resulted from geotechnical structures, landfilling of wastes etc.). Part of the subject is also the environmental impacts of mining and underground structures, in particular with regard to the abandonment of mines (flooding of mines, stability of shafts, subsidence basins, redevelopment of mine tailings and ponds, etc.), tunneling impacts (e.g. change in hydrogeological conditions). The course also includes the problems of soil and water contamination and their remediation. Summarizing of preventive and reparative measures in relation to geotechnical structures and geohazards is prioritized within the course.
Compulsory literature:
Sarsby, Robert W.. (2013). Environmental Geotechnics (2nd Edition). ICE Publishing. Online version available at: https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpEGE00003/environmental-geotechnics/environmental-geotechnics
Recommended literature:
Brandon, Thomas L. Valentine, Richard J.. (2017). Geotechnical Frontiers 2017 - Geotechnical Materials, Modeling, and Testing - Selected Papers from Sessions of Geotechnical Frontiers 2017, March 12-15, 2017, Orlando, Florida. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Online version available at: https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpGFGMMTS6/geotechnical-frontiers/geotechnical-frontiers
Selected publications from journal Environmental Geotechnics
E-ISSN 2051-803X
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.