- Soil investigation and field tests
- Physical soil properties and their determination in the laboratory
– Grain size, grain size distribution
– Soil parameters (density, density, pore content, degree of saturation)
– State variables (plastic properties, consistency, storage density)
- Soil classification
- Mechanical soil properties and their determination in the laboratory
– Soil deformation
– Soil strength
- Water in the soil
– Water permeability
– Drawing simple flow networks with calculation
– Verification of hydraulic fracture
- Verification methods in Geotechnical Engineering
- Settlement calculation
- Excavation shoring systems (overview)
- Simple earth static calculations for earth pressure
