Professorship for Geotechnics

Note: Please send your requests for exam preparation to geotech@htw-dresden.de.

Note: Please send your requests for exam preparation to geotech@htw-dresden.de.

Teaching Area:

Soil and rock properties

• Considering the geological information and mineralogy in the assessment of the building material

• Investigation of subsoil properties

• laboratory tests

Soil mechanics basics

• soil and rock Classification

• Material laws and characteristic values of soils

• Basics of static analysis of soil

Earthwork construction, foundation and dam

• Building Foundation (construction methods, preliminary design and verification)

• Excavations (shoring systems, dewatering, verification)

• Dam construction for hydraulic and traffic engineering

Special topics

• Damage to structures caused by foundation soil

• Numerical methods for verifications in geotechnics

• Service phases of geotechnical projects

research topics:

For more information on current and finished research projects, click here.

geotechnical project management

- Integrated system PrAG - an inclusive archive for geotechnical projects encompassing the records and administration of all work steps in the procedure of a project progress

- Geo-DATe - Recording and evaluating the laboratory tests

- TeRRaS - a systematic database for characteristic of soil and rock samples

- geo-PArc - characteristic values of subsoil layers

- geo-ExpReS - an interface to record exploration results

Development of novel foundation elements

Earthworks on loose soils

- Interdisciplinary German-Czech advanced training project

- Earthworks in landfill construction