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Engineering Geology<br />
Engineering Geology is an applied earth science and a branch of the applied geology<br />
which requires not only multidisciplinary knowledge within the natural sciences<br />
(geology, chemistry, physics, mathematics), but still the engineering sciences. The<br />
common aims of all special subjects contributing to engineering geology are the<br />
investigation, the use, the protection and the remediation of the upper parts of the<br />
earth's crust.<br />
Regarding the worldwide rising importance of renewable energy resources,<br />
Engineering Geology as the sciences which deals direct with the use of geothermal<br />
energy is one of the future's most important applied geosciences. A highly qualified<br />
geothermal lab and experimental hall is planned and will be realized starting in 2007<br />
with first equipment.<br />
Engineering Geology seizes the behaviour of rocks and rock masses according to the<br />
genetic material properties and their earth-history development. It quantifies the<br />
mechanical, physical and hydro mechanical characteristics and the behaviour of soils<br />
and rocks in detail and in the assembly.<br />
Important corresponding special subjects are the soil and rock mechanics, civil<br />
services, fo<strong>und</strong>ation engineering, tunnel and cavity construction, drilling technology,<br />
measurement engineering and applied subjects of hydrology and hydrogeology,<br />
petrology and geochemistry. Engineering geology has thus strong relations with the<br />
geotechnical engineering. It translates the results and knowledge of the geosciences<br />
into the engineering requirements.<br />
Thus, Engineering Geology contributes to the fact that buildings of all kinds can be<br />
build and heated surely and economically. For this purpose the building gro<strong>und</strong> and<br />
other <strong>und</strong>ergro<strong>und</strong> conditions for engineering structures, such as geothermal power<br />
plants, traffic routes e.g. roads, bridges, tunnels as well as other infrastructure such<br />
as caverns, dams, pipelines as well as buildings such as high rise buildings, halls,<br />
wind power stations as well as water-structural plants such as water gates, dams,<br />
dykes, are investigated.<br />
Staff Members<br />
Head<br />
Research Associates<br />
Ph.-D. Students<br />
Technical Personnel<br />
Prof. Dr. Ingo Sass<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Burbaum<br />
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Nix<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Marek Naser<br />
Dipl.-Geol. Ulf Gwildis<br />
Gabriela Schubert<br />
Jürgen Krumm<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Arne Buß<br />
Rainer Seehaus<br />
Secretary Kirsten Herrmann Monika Schweikhardt<br />
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