Other activities

All projects were realised at the Geotechnical Institute of the TU Mining Academy Freiberg (Saxony, Germany).

2018 - 2021:
Geotechnical investigation and monitoring of mass movements in the "Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland"

• establishment of a knowledge database and expert system in the field of georisks

• establishment of a monitoring- and early warning system in respect to mass movements or rock falls, respectively

• field investigations of slopes vulnerable to failure and/or crucial for public safety

• laboratory tests of the rock-mechanical and physical properties as well as petrographical-mineralogical investigations

• generating geometric models and subsquently material models of the slopes

• geotechnical safety calculation in respect to a possible failure

• Partner: Charles University Prague (Czech Republik); Czech and German public authorities and Geological Surveys.

2012 - 2017:
Dissertation "Roofing slate - origin, deposits, properties, standards and mining" 

• origin of slates

• methods and international standards for the determination of rock properties

• physical and strength properties of slate with emphasize to the influence of the anisotropy to the properties

• weathering behaviour

• slate mining and associated geotechnical (safety) aspects

• calculation examples for room-pillar design in underground slate mines

• world-wide slate deposits: geology, properties, application

• supervisors: Prof.Dr.-Ing. habil. H. Konietzky and Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Heiner Siedel (TU Dresden)

2012 - 2014
Investigation of severely weathered Baroque tombstone for a following in situ consolidation

• damage mapping in accordance to ICOMOS

• comprehensive investigations of the material properties before and after the in situ consolidation

• in situ vacuum consolidation (by Pummer, Austria)

• numerical simulation of possible crack development due to the consolidation as well as fluid simulation of the consolidant

• Partner: TU Dresden, HTW Dresden, public authorities of cultural heritage, Atelier Pummer (restorer, Austria).

2009 - 2012
Investigation and documentation of small sized monuments in the Saxonian -Bohemian border area

• field mapping and documentation of the single monuments

• investigation of the material properties as well as cultural and historical aspects

• development of concepts for the restoration of endangered monuments

• database and GIS and website "Cultural Landscape Saxonia-Bohemia"

• Partner: Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republik).

2005 - 2007:
Investigation and partial restoration of the monastic water system of the Cistercian Osek Monastery

• engineering- and hydrogeological investigations

• Establishment of a GIS

• investigation about the cause of the visible damages on the buildings

• historical/abandoned mining

• investigations about the moisture within the building material

• definition of further necessary investigations within the field of geoscience and restoration.

• Partner: Charles University Prague (Czech Republik).