Course teached as: B020950 - COMPLEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA APPLICATA Second Cycle Degree in GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES Curriculum DINAMICA DEI SISTEMI VULCANICI
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Modeling of hydrological balance. Flow in satured and insatured porous media. Infiltration. Well hydraulics in steady state. Groundwater pollution and vulnerability assessment. Investigations and in situ tests. Bearing capacity of direct and deep foundations and settlements. Earth retaining structures and lateral earth pressure. Slope stability. Geological-environmental legislation.
Todd DK, Mays LW. Groundwater Hydrology, 3rd Edition, Wiley
Moisello U, Idrologia tecnica. LGP
Colombo P., Colleselli F. Elementi di geologia tecnica. Zanichelli
Learning Objectives
To provide the advanced professional knowledges in the field of applications of hydrology and hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering and geological-environmental legislation.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures, Seminars, and Field/Laboratory Activities
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. During the exam the student should demonstrate the knowledge of the topics covered during the course developing logical-deductive reasoning, including the connection between different topics.
Course program
Refreshing some basic concepts of groundwater hydrology and geotechnical engineering. General equation of flow in saturated porous media, Laplace's eq, flow nets, graphic solution. Infiltration, Richards' eq. Empiric solutions for infiltration. SCS-Curve Number method. Green-Ampt method. Hydrologic cycle and water balance, input/output relationships. Hydrograph of direct runoff over a watershed during a specified duration. Groundwater and well hydraulics in steady state. Dupuit-Forcheimer conditions. Complete wells in confined and unconfined aquifers. Thiem's eq, Dupuit's eq. Assessment of groundwater pollution risk and vulnerability. DRASTIC and SINTACS methods. Introduction to groundwater modeling. Framework of the national and regional law system about water resources and their protection.
Investigation and in situ tests: boreholes and sampling, static and dynamic penetrometric tests, dilatometer tests, scissometer tests, volumetric tests. Classification of direct foundations and calculation of bearing capacity in drained and undrained conditions. Classification of deep foundations and calculation of the bearing capacity of the single pole with static formulas and with empirical correlations from penetrometric tests. Piling. Foundations settlements: calculation of vertical tensions, calculation of settlements of direct foundations and calculation of settlements of deep foundations, allowable settlements. Slope stability: stability analysis in undrained conditions, stability analysis in drained conditions, infinite slope stability method, method of slices, rigorous and non-rigorous solutions. Environmental cartographic and geological data. Elements of regional and national legislation on soil conservation and territorial planning. Construction technical standards.