ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Salvatore GRASSO
Credit Value: 9
Taught classes: 39 hours
Exercise: 52 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Evaluation on seismic geotechnical hazards


Course Structure

1 SEISMIC VULNERABILITY

2 LANDSLIDES ZONATION

3 geotechnical aspects of hydraulic flows

4 VOLCANIC FLOWS

5 GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS of LANDFILLS

6 GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF CONTAMINATED SITES


Detailed Course Content

1 SEISMIC VULNERABILITY

1.1 seismic zonation

1.2 landslides caused by earthquakes hazard zonation

1.3 liquefaction

2 LANDSLIDES ZONATION

2.1 landslides caused by rain interaction modeling

2.2 modeling for soil-structure interaction

2.3 landslides real cases

2.4 analysis of landslide hazard

2.5 lateral spreading

3 geotechnical aspects of hydraulic flows

3.1 basin plan

3.2 geotechnical aspects of hydraulic flows

3.3 debris flows

3 VOLCANIC FLOW

4.1 defense against volcanic eruption

4.2 subsidence

5 GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS of LANDFILLS

5.1 technical standards

5.2 geotechnical characterisation

5.3 pollutant transport modelling in subsurface

6 GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF CONTAMINATED SITES

6.1 site characterization

6.2 geotechnical factors in risk analysis

6.3 environmental remediation of contaminated sites


Textbook Information

- TC4: Manual for zonation on seismic geotechnical hazards. ISSMGE. The Japanese Geotechnical Society. Tokyo. 1999.

- Manual for zonation on areas susceptible to rain-induced slope failure. The Japanese Geotechnical Society. Tokyo. 1997.

- Maugeri M. Romano R. Suggestions for preventive and/or defensive works against lava flows in the Etnean area.