Earthworks and building with geosynthetics
Preface
Identifier: BGU50019
Curriculum/ Assignment: Elective 1. Semester
ECTS-Credits: 6,0
Cycle: Winter semester
Language: Englisch
Contact
Course Content
The building material soil:
- classification
- categorization
- sensitivity to frost
Loosening, loading, banking:
- construction operation
- use of equipment
Installation and compaction:
- Tasks of soil compaction
- compaction properties
- Pre-compaction measures
- Requirements for compaction quality
- compaction types
Quality assurance, testing:
- self-monitoring
- control tests
- direct and indirect test procedures
Soil treatment with binders:
- Use of lime, cement, mixed binders, etc.
Building on low load-bearing ground:
- Deep soil improvements
- soil replacement
Rail-specific earthwork aspects:
- Ril 836
- formation seepage layers
- formation protection layers
- dynamic stability
Hydraulic applications:
- dikes
- dams
Geosynthetics:
- raw materials, products, production
Laboratory testing:
- testing facilities
- evaluation
- transferability of the results into practice
Calculation methods, installation loads, road construction applications:
- examples
- calculation approaches
Dam construction:
- examples
- calculation approaches
- coated columns
- reinforced earth bodies on point or linear supporting elements
Embankments and supporting structures:
- design examples
- requirements
- calculations
Study Documents
All Study documents will be provided in class.
Exam
A written examination is offered at the end of the lecture period. The examination takes 90 minutes and aids are allowed.
The course content dealt with in the previous (current) semester is always relevant for the examination.
The registration for the exam must be completed in time on tumonline. The examination office is responsible for the registration for the exam.