Teaching - Research - Development - Applications in Engineering
Teaching: Scientific education in the field of geotechnics, soil mechanics, foundation engineering, rock mechanics and tunneling; Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate studies
Geotechnical Research: soil- and rock mechanics, environmental protection, geological and hydrological requirements
Testing and Metering: forces, ground motion and shaking during construction, new testing devices, measuring and experimental methods for subsoil and building material compatibility testing
Quality Management: Comprehensive and selective testing procedures, technical documentation
Geosynthetics: Geotextiles, grid and synthetic liners in soil and earth works, small (laboratory) and large scale experiments and calculations
Engineering in Rock and Soil: construction above ground, bridges, subsurface pipes, earth retaining structures, barrages, Infrastructure and subsurface construction amongst others:
Earth works and Embankments: Embankments for traffic or retaining purposes, slopes, bearing layers and base grades, slope failures
Underground Engineering: building pit, water drainage, sealing walls, soil solidification, artificial freezing of foundation ground, deep compaction, injections, long term supporting behaviour of bored piles, anchors, etc.
Tunneling: open building method, sliding method, tunnel advancing in loose rock
Soil and Groundwater protection: Sealing of Traffic infrastructure and industrial sites, dumps / e.g. remediation of soil and water
Safety analysis: Statistical proceedures for an estimation of the soil quality/ calculating the stability of a structural design
Special facilities
Test authority with laboratories and experimental equipment for large scale strain experiments, hall with experimental pit
Equipment for subsoil investigations, testing during construction and quality inspections
Extensive library in cooperation with the library of the Technical University of Munich
