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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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