Engineering Geology and Geotechnics for Infrastructure development in Europe Lecture Notes in E

The Joint European Working Group of the ISSMGE, ISRM and IAEG for the Definition of Professional Tasks, Responsibilities and Co-operation in Ground Engineering....Pages 1-8
Some Basic Considerations about the Necessities and Possibilities of Cooperation between Civil Engineers and Engineering Geologists....Pages 9-14
Current Issues Relating to the Professional Practice of Engineering Geology in Europe....Pages 15-30
Feasibility Studies and Design of High-Speed Railway (TGV) Projects in Portugal....Pages 31-38
Austrian Guideline for Geomechanical Design of Tunnels - Necessity for Cooperation between Geologists, Geotechnical and Civil Engineers....Pages 39-46
Soil Investigations Requirements from the Construction Industry....Pages 47-53
The Necessity of Combining Geologists and Engineers for Fieldwork in the Practice of Geotechnics....Pages 54-58
Contribution of On-Line Tools on Internet for the Teaching of Slopes and Tunnels Stability....Pages 59-68
German Higher Education in the Framework of the Bologna Process....Pages 69-73
International Standardisation of Ground Investigation and Testing Methods....Pages 74-85
Towards Quality Assurance and an Adequate Risk Management in Geotechnical Engineering - Application of Eurocode 7 and DIN 4020 in Engineering Geology....Pages 86-93
Aggregate Research in Support of European Standardisation....Pages 94-100
Standardised Methods for Sampling by Drilling and Excavation and for Groundwater Measurements....Pages 101-109
Interpretation of SCPT Data Using Cross-over and Cross-Correlation Methods....Pages 110-116
Evaluation Concept and Testing Method for Heavy Metal Contaminant Transport in the Underground....Pages 117-124
Geo-engineering Evaluation with Prime Consideration to Liquefaction Potential for Eskisehir City (Turkey)....Pages 125-132
Engineering Geology Property Parameters for the Tertiary in The Netherlands....Pages 133-143
Various Assessments of the Characteristic Values of Soil Cohesion and Friction Angle: Application to New Caledonian Laterite....Pages 144-152
Numerical Analysis of a Tunnel in an Anisotropy Rock Mass. Envalira Tunnel (Principality of Andorra)....Pages 153-161
Engineering-Geological Properties of Carbonate Rocks in Relation to Weathering Intensity....Pages 162-171
Engineering Geocryological Mapping for Construction in the Permafrost Regions....Pages 172-178
3D Terrestrial Laser Scanning as a New Field Measurement and Monitoring Technique....Pages 179-189
Engineering Geology in International Dredging and Infrastructure....Pages 190-202
Prediction of the Uniaxial Compressive Strength of a Greywacke by Fuzzy Inference System....Pages 203-210
Self-healing of Fractures around Radioactive Waste Disposal in Clay Formations....Pages 211-218
Hydrogeological Investigations in Deep Wells at the Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory....Pages 219-225
Java Tomography System (JaTS), a Seismic Tomography Software Using Fresnel Volumes, a Fast Marching Eikonal Solver and a Probabilistic Reconstruction Method: Conclusive Synthetic Test Cases....Pages 226-235
Using the Complete Nano Engineering Geological Spectrum to Assess the Performance of Clay Barriers....Pages 236-243
Rock Splitting in the Surrounds of Underground Openings: An Experimental Approach Using Triaxial Extension Tests....Pages 244-254
A Constitutive Model for Chemically Sensitive Clays....Pages 255-264
Relocation of a Problematic Segment of a Natural Gas Pipeline Using GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping, Hendek (Turkey)....Pages 265-274
Micro-structure and Swelling Behaviour of Compacted Clayey Soils: A Quantitative Approach....Pages 275-284
Physical and Numerical Modelling of a Two-Well Tracer Test at the Laboratory Scale....Pages 285-293
Soil Investigation Aspects of a Complex Metro Project in Amsterdam....Pages 294-303
Effects of the Determination of Characteristic Values of Soil Parameters....Pages 304-307
Basic Soil Properties of a Number of Artificial Clay - Sand Mixtures Determined as a Function of Sand Content....Pages 308-315
The Effect of Sand on Strength of Mixtures of Bentonite-Sand....Pages 316-320
Nonconventional and Simple View of the Soil-Structure Interaction Problem....Pages 321-326
Effect of Pore Fluid Salinity on Compressibility and Shear Strength Development of Clayey Soils....Pages 327-340
Hydraulic Monitoring of Low-Permeability Argillite at the Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory....Pages 341-346
Hydrogeologic Exploration during Excavation of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel (AlpTransit Switzerland)....Pages 347-358
Coring Performance to Characterise the Geology in the “Cran aux Iguanodons” of Bernissart (Belgium)....Pages 359-367
ConsoliTest - Using Surface Waves for Estimating Shear-Wave Velocities in the Dutch Subsurface....Pages 368-376
Multi-level Groundwater Pressure Monitoring at the Meuse/Haute-Marne Underground Research Laboratory, France....Pages 377-384
Application of Borehole Radar for Monitoring Steam-Enhanced Remediation of a Contaminated Site in Fractured Limestone, Maine, USA....Pages 385-392
Site Investigation for Abandoned Lignite Mines in Urban Environment....Pages 393-404
Behaviour of the Weak Rock Cut Slopes and Their Characterization Using the Results of the Slake Durability Test....Pages 405-413
Determination of the Failure Surface Geometry in Quick Slides Using Balanced Cross Section Techniques - Application to Aznalcóllar Tailings Dam Failure....Pages 414-421
Obstacle Investigation RandstadRail in Rotterdam, The Netherlands....Pages 422-434
Tunnelling in Urbanised Areas - Geotechnical Case Studies at Different Project Stages....Pages 435-443
Geotechnical Characterization and Stability of a Slope in the Marnoso-Arenacea Formation for the Realization of an Underground Car Park in Urbino (Italy)....Pages 444-454
Cross Connections at Pannerdensch Canal Tunnel - Freezing Soil Mass Design and Execution Comparison....Pages 455-465
Effects of Lime Stabilization on Engineering Properties of Expansive Ankara Clay....Pages 466-474
The Belgian High-Speed Railway Soumagne Tunnel Project....Pages 475-484
High Speed Lines in Belgium: Various Engineering Geological and Geotechnical Aspects....Pages 485-503
An Overview of the Geological and Geotechnical Aspects of the New Railway Line in the Lower Inn Valley....Pages 504-512
Stability and Serviceability of a Gas Pipeline at the Base of a Steep Creeping Slope....Pages 513-520
Investigation of Karst Cavities and Earth Subsidence with Combined Application of Boring and Geophysics in the Progress of High-Speed Railway Routes....Pages 521-526
Engineering Geological Considerations in Tunnelling through Major Tectonic Thrust Zones - Cases along the Egnatia Motorway, Northern Greece....Pages 527-537
Tunnelling Problems in Older Sand Formations....Pages 538-548
Engineering Geological Model of the Contact between Two Petrographic and Stratigraphic Units along the Zagreb-Split Highway, Croatia....Pages 549-554
Overconsolidated, Early-Pleistocene Clays in Relation to Foundation Design and Construction of HSLSouth, Province of Brabant, The Netherlands....Pages 555-564
Location of Buried Mineshafts and Adits Using Reconnaissance Geophysical Methods....Pages 565-573
Geological-Technical and Geo-engineering Aspects of Dimensional Stone Underground Quarrying....Pages 574-584
Leibis/Lichte Dam in Germany....Pages 585-592
Creep Behaviour of Alpine Salt Rock and the Influence of Insoluble Residues in Solution Mining....Pages 593-603
Assessment of Rock Slope Stability in Limestone Quarries in the Tournai’s Region (Belgium) Using Structural Data....Pages 604-613
Studying Underground Motions in the Ramioul’s Cave - Belgium....Pages 614-623
Drying-Up of a Natural Spring for Ensuring Stability of an Artificial Slope: Is It Sustainable Development?....Pages 624-630
Suitability Maps of Underground Construction in the Province of South-Holland....Pages 631-640
Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Siting in a Highly Seismic Region on the Mexican Pacific Coast....Pages 641-649
National Environmental Monitoring of the Slovak Republic - Part Geological Hazards....Pages 650-656
Stability and Subsidence Assessment over Shallow Abandoned Room and Pillar Limestone Mines....Pages 657-670
Numerical Modelling of Seismic Slope Stability....Pages 671-684
A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Evaluation of the “Bottegone” Subsidence (Grosseto, Italy)....Pages 685-693
Influence of Underground Coal Mining on the Environment in Horna Nitra Deposits in Slovakia....Pages 694-700
Sustainable Passive and Active Remedial Measures of Creeping Bedrock Slopes: Two Case Studies from Austria....Pages 701-707
Problems in Defining the Criteria for an Earthquake Hazard Map - A Case Study: The City of Haifa, Northern Israel....Pages 708-718
Some Positive and Negative Aspects of Mine Abandonment and Their Implications on Infrastructure....Pages 719-726
Seismic and Flood Risk Evaluation in Spain from Historical Data....Pages 727-737
Landslide Risk Assessment in Italy: A Case Study in the Umbria-Marche Apennines....Pages 738-744
Modelling of Landslide-Triggering Factors - A Case Study in the Northern Apennines, Italy....Pages 745-753
Management of Combined Natural Risks - A New Approach....Pages 754-759
Technique of Quantitative Assessment of Karst Risk on the Local and Regional Levels....Pages 760-766
Cut-and-Cover Tunnel below Boulevard River Meuse, Maastricht, The Netherlands....Pages 767-776
The Geotechnical Baseline Report as Risk Allocation Tool....Pages 777-785
Matching Monitoring, Risk Allocation and Geotechnical Baseline Reports....Pages 786-791
Smart Site Investigations Save Money!....Pages 792-800