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Geoengineering

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Course Description

To teach students how to apply the principles of surveying and geotechnical engineering and how to integrate theoretical and practical knowledge of geotechnical engineering and surveying in different types of engineering constructions and works i.e. construction of roads and geotechnical structures in soils.

Study Programmes

undergraduate
Engineers - course
(7. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Describe the origin of soils. Explain laboratory testing procedures for the determination of physical and index properties. Classify soil materials.
  2. Name and describe in-situ testing methods for geological materials and to be able to use the results presented in geotechnical report.
  3. Describe testing methods for the determination of hydraulic and mechanical properties of soil. Perform stress-strain analyses, calculate settlement, water flow and slope stability.
  4. Apply the principles of geotechnical engineering for the construction of geotecnical structures.
  5. Organize and supervise the construction of simple geotechnical and hydrotechnical structures in soil materials.
  6. Explain the role of geodesy in engineering activities.
  7. Comprehend the theory of geodesy, automatic measuring systems.
  8. Apply classic and modern geodetic measurement systems for road construction.
  9. Apply different staking out methods for road construction.
  10. Specify and describe hydrometric measurements.

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Exercises

Field work

Laboratory

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: The origin of soil materials. Index and classification properties. Soil classification. Seminar: Physical properties. Index properties. Soil identification and classification.
  2. Lectures: Ground investigations and in-situ testing. Geotechnical report. Water in soils. Seepage. Seminar: Hydraulic heads. Flow nets.
  3. Lectures: Effective stress principle. Geological stress state. Contact pressure. Seminar: Primary and secondary stress state calculations.
  4. Lectures: Oedometer test. Soil settlement. Seminar: Settlement calculations.
  5. Lectures: Strength of soils. Direct shear. Triaxial test. Unconfined dcompression test. Soil compaction. Seminar: Strength of soils. Proctor test.
  6. Lectures: Slope stability analyses. Landslides. Seminar: Slope stability calculation.
  7. Lectures: Rankine's theory of lateral earth pressures: active and pasive case. Bearing capacity of soils. Seminar: Active and passive earth pressure. Bearing capacity.
  8. Lectures: General characteristics, the role and importance of geodesy in engineering activities Seminar: Application of geology in the implementation of engineering works (road building, fortification, camuflage, demolition)
  9. Lectures: Plans and maps (measures, content) Seminar: Calculation of distances, angles and coordinates from analog plans and maps
  10. Lectures: Geodetic measurements and instruments (TC, GPS, GNSS, geo-robots) and accuracy estimation Seminar: Staking elements - ways of calculating
  11. Lectures: Geodetic works on road construction - operating range, staking route Seminar: Staking of points and lines with automatic (and non-automatic) instruments
  12. Lectures: Basic geodetic works on the construction of bridges and tunnels Seminar: Measureing cross sections of elongated objects and calculate the volume (cubature)
  13. Lectures: Orientation with magnetic and gyroscopic instruments Seminar: Calculation of field works (cubature) in the construction of surface facilities (airports, playgrounds ..
  14. Lectures: Hydrometric measureing - measureing cross sections of watercourses Vježbe: Technical report and works accuracy-rating
  15. Lectures: Geodetic and geotechnical works for transmission lines, pipelines and hydroelectric power plants. Seminar: Visit to a larger construction site

Literature

Zlatović, Sonja (2006.), Uvod u mehaniku tla, TVZ, Zagreb.
Cernica, John N. (1995.), Geotechnical Engineering: Soil Mechanics, Joh Wiley & Sons.
Kapović, Z. (2010.), Geodezija u niskogradnji, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Pavelić, Davor (2014.), Opća geologija, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

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General

ID 282185
  Winter semester
6.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
45 Lectures
30 Laboratory exercises