Geotechnical Monitoring and Field Experiments

Course guarantor:

Jan Záleský

Lecturer:

Jan Záleský

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Geotechnics

Synopsis:

Monitoring of structures and subsoil applied as a tool for verification of assumptions made at design stage, selection of input data for calculations and for serviceability approval. Relationship of instrumentation by sensors and reliability to describe subsoil response and development of behaviour of monitored structure in real scale. Data gathering for back analyses and modelling of subsoil and structure deformation development. Practical training of line-wise monitoring of 3D displacement in instrumented borehole in front of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Examples if instrumentation and data gathering for different types of displacement sensors, mechanical stress and temperature.

Description, execution and evaluation of results of selected field tests. Examples of applications of field tests and applications for calculations and modelling. Design of field tests and field instrumentation for selected types of structures and site conditions.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Give information and selected training in geotechnical monitoring and in basics of field testing

Study materials:

Obligatory: Lectures in pdf files sent directly to students by e-mail.

Recommended:

[1] Dunnicliff, J. Geotechnical instrumentation for monitoring field performance A Wiley-Interscience Publication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-00546-0.

[2] Smoltczyk, U.: Geotechnical Engineering Handbook, Fundamentals. Ernst & Son Verlag A Wiley Comp., Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-433-01449-3.

Study requisites: Actual publications focused on separate topics in pdf files sent directly to students by e-mail.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: