NUMERICAL MODELLING IN ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- MONICA GHIROTTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- GEO/05
Training objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide the basic principles of numerical modelling for geotechnical and hydrogeological problems.
The course is divided into two parts:
1) Numerical Modelling in Engineering Geology (24h)
2) Numerical Modelling in Hydrogeology (24h) Prerequisites
- Previous knowledge from courses: Technical Geology, Applied Geology, Hydrogeology, Applied Hydrogeology
Course programme
- The course 'Numerical Modelling in Hydrogeology' consists in 24 h of teaching divided into 10
hours of theoretical concepts about Numerical Modelling in hydrogeology and 8h of
guided tutorials in the labs; 3h theoretical concepts a
The course 'Numerical modelling in Engineering Geology' forecasts 24 hours of teaching divided in 8 hours of frontal lectures and 16 guided tutorial in the labs. Introduction to Engineering Geology modelling. Quick review on geotechnical and geomechanical principles and parameters (4 h).
Principles of earth and rock stability analysis (4 h); numerical execises (16h). Didactic methods
- The course 'Numerical modelling in Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology' forecasts 24 hours each of teaching divided in 8 hours of frontal lectures and 16 guided tutorial in the labs.
Learning assessment procedures
- The aim of the exam is to verify at which level the learning objectives previously described have been acquired.
The exam consists in a numerical modelling exercise on Engineering Geology.
The final grade results from the average of both Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology tests. Reference texts
- E.Hoek Practical rock engineering, 2007; freeware at https://www.rocscience.com/learning/hoek-s-corner/books
