Introduction

The present Department of Geotechnics, Geology and Marine Civil Engineering was formed in 2007 as a joint project of three Departments in the Faculty re-organization framework. It contributes the 70-year history and tradition of the GUT. Such a connection of scientific disciplines in the Department coverage linked with coastal University location makes the research topic list:

• theoretical and experimental research, numerical analysis
  in the soil mechanics field
• laboratory and in-situ investigations of soils
• the soil improvement / reinforcement methods
• „green geotechnics” employing ecological materials
  and technologies, utilizing the by-products
• theoretical, experimental and practical issues of foundation engineering, regarding direct and deep foundations, tunnelling, deep excavations, retaining structures, stability of slopes, the soil-structure interaction, application of geosynthetics
• coastal engineering, including stability of cliffs
  and seashore protection
• the aspects of hydrogeology and environmental
  engineering addressing groundwater flow, underground water supply, water intakes, partially saturated soils, contaminant transport, soil and groundwater remediation
• theoretical and practical issues of design and operation
  of marine civil engineering structures

The ultimate Department’s value consists of its highly qualified Staff, experienced in its industrial co-operation and its native, vastly provided, specialist-oriented laboratory of geotechnical research.

Service offer

• working out and making opinions on investment projects
  in civil engineering, marine civil engineering and environmental engineering, scientific supervision of their construction and operation
• a wide offer of professional field and laboratory
  investigations of soils
• laboratory investigations of geosynthetic materials
• multi-variant analysis of soil-structure interaction,
  pointing out structural failure cases
• the impact assessment of investments and problematic
  structures to natural environment
• groundwater amount assessment, modelling
  of groundwater flow and the impact of intake operation to water quality
• training for designers and contractors in the fields of geotechnics and foundation engineering
• assessment of transformation and protection routines
  of sea shores, featuring cliffs, landslide dynamics

Laboratory equipment

• the tools of in-situ soil investigations, including
  penetration testing with CPTU, DMT, DPL, DPM, ITB-ZW and more
• the devices and instruments providing a vast array
  of laboratory experiments addressing physical and mechanical parameters of natural and anthropogenic soils: tri-axial apparatus, direct shear, Proctor, oedometric and others
• testing machines to cover geosynthetic materials
• the means of static and dynamic tests of bearing
  capacity of piles
• experimental set-up for model tests in geotechnics
• calibration chamber