Course Details

Experiment in Geotechnics (The Course of ESF)

Academic Year 2025/26

VFC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vladislav Horák, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

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