ESR7: Uni­vers­ity of Natur­al Re­sour­ces and Life Sci­ences (BOKU), Vien­na, Austria

Slope stabilisa­tion by soil bi­oen­gineer­ing met­hod

Super­visor: Prof. Wei Wu

Ob­jec­tive: Stabiliza­tion measures such as soil bi­oen­gineer­ing met­hods

Met­hodology: Slope stabiliza­tion with soil bi­oen­gineer­ing met­hods, e.g. live stak­ing and fas­cine, brush-layer and branch-packing has em­er­ged as ef­fective and sus­tain­able al­ter­native to con­ven­tion­al met­hods (an­chors and re­tain­ing walls). The in­ves­tiga­tion will con­sid­er both mech­an­ical (re­in­force­ment by plant roots) and hy­drolog­ical (drainage and evapot­ranspira­tion) fac­tors. The in­digen­ous plants in Europe and typ­ical geolog­ical for­ma­tions will be con­sidered in order to ac­hieve ration­al, economic and safe de­sign. The re­sults in Task 2.1 will be in­cluded in the in­ves­tiga­tion.

De­liver­able: Mech­an­ical and hy­drolog­ical study on bi­oen­gineer­ing slope stabilisation/mitiga­tion measures, Evalua­tion with con­ven­tion­al met­hods;

Second­ments: TEER: 12p-ms (case study, database), KRIS: 2 p-ms (pro­ject per­for­mance), ARUP: 2 p-ms (de­sign prac­tice)