Landscape Architecture

To recognize major geotechnical hazards, plan appropriate site investigations, and to develop safe and successful geotechnical design. Geotechnical engineering and fundamental concepts in soil mechanics: to discuss the origin and composition of soils and introduce fundamental intrinsic parameters and state variables required to classify soils and to assess their current state. Effective stress in soils. Drained and undrained conditions. Introduction to major Geohazards. Hazard zonation, monitoring, management and mitigation. Landslides (flows and mudslides): describe and classify landslides. Complete stability analysis for drained and undrained conditions on failure surfaces of planar, circular and general shapes. Slope stabilization methods: ground profile modification, drainage, retaining structures, other methods. Seepage flow and consolidation. Expected learning outcomes: - basic knowledge of soil mechanics and geotechnical investigations - knowledge of the most important risks of a hydro-geological nature and of the monitoring techniques of the phenomena for the protection and safeguarding of the environment and human life. This knowledge will allow to intervene on the territory and on the landscape, improving protection and reducing the incidence of risks. Expected learning outcomes: - basic knowledge of soil mechanics and geotechnical investigations - Knowledge of the most important risks of hydro-geological and technical monitoring of the phenomena for the protection and preservation of the environment and human life. This knowledge will allow to intervene on the territory and on the landscape, improving protection and reducing the incidence of risks.