Foundation engineering and rock construction

Preface

Identifier: BGU50017

Curriculum/ Assignment: Compulsory 2. Semester

ECTS-Credits: 6,0

Cycle: Summer semester

Language: German

Contact

Mohamed Soliman, M.Sc.

 

 

 

Course Content

  • Earth pressure assumptions, excavation pit enclosure, hydraulic failure
  • anchorages
  • piles
  • diaphragm walls
  • injections
  • jet grouting
  • underpinning
  • artificial freezing of foundation ground
  • Observation method, measuring in geotechnics
  • soil-structure interaction
  • rock slope, anchorages
  • Kinematic element method
  • rock cavity construction

 

Study Documents

All study documents can be found on MOODLE.

 

Exam

Each semester a written examination is offered. This includes 6 ECTS in the mandatory offer and lasts 120 minutes.

General questions and arithmetical tasks are combined.

All common aids are allowed (except for programmable calculators!).

The course contents of the elective modules are not relevant for the examination.

The course contents dealt with in the previous (current) semester are 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.

Excursion

At the beginning of the 2nd Master's semester there is a two-day excursion to get to know each other.

In our excursion archive you will find reports of previous excursions