ENGINEERING

GEOLOGY
GEO101
ARLENE A. MORALES
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Civil engineering is a discipline that concerns the
designing, building and maintaining of man-made
products and constructions, including roads,
bridges, canals, dams, buildings, and more.
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
 Geotechnical engineering is the branch of engineering
concerned with the analysis, design and construction of
foundations, slopes, retaining structures,
embankments, tunnels, levees, wharves, landfills
and other systems that are made of or are
supported by soil or rock.
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
Engineering geology is the application of the
geology to engineering study for the purpose of
assuring that the geological factors regarding the
location, design, construction, operation and
maintenance of engineering works are recognized
and accounted for.
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
Engineering geology is the application of geological
knowledge in engineering works. It has wide applications in
various engineering fields especially in urban planning and
expansion. Site investigation for major structures such as
dams, factories, and heavy buildings is one of the main
parts of engineering applications. Others include earth
material characterization, exploration and assessment of
construction materials and assessment of difficult grounds
such as sabkha, expansive and collapsible soils. The
obtained information can be presented in a form of
engineering geological maps, which is essential in several
projects.
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY VS GEOLOGY
 Geology– is the study of the earth, its composition, structure, and history
and the processes that shaped the earth of the past and those that would
continue to mold the earth of the present.
 Engineering geology- is the application of the geological sciences to
engineering projects. It is aimed at studying the geology of an area for
the purpose of assuring that the geological factors regarding the location,
design, construction, operation and maintenance of engineering works, are
perfect for the project implementation. Geology is the pure science and
Engineering Geology is the applied science. Engineering geology is a
subset of Geology.
 Geology is a natural science, meaning it's a science that tries to
understand a portion of the natural world and how things happen in
nature. More specifically, it studies the rocks and the processes that make
and change those rocks while Engineering geology is a field of applied
geology, meaning that you use geological knowledge produced by geology
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY VS GEOLOGY
 Engineering geology typically answers the similar questions like:
 If I dig through here in order to build a tunnel, what measures I should take to hold the rock,
so it doesn't collapse?
 How the rocks are going to behave when you build a hydro dam on it? Are the rocks porous
enough that water will drain through them? Are the rocks resilient enough to hold the
burden of the weight of the dam and water?
 What will be the consequences of changing the course of this river 2 miles to the west?
 Geology is the study of earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those
materials and the effects of the natural forces acting upon them and is important to civil
engineering because all work performed by civil engineers involves earth and its features.
Fundamental understanding of geology is so important that it is a requirement in university-
level civil engineering programs. For a civil engineering project to be successful, the
engineers must understand the land upon which the project rests. Geologists study the land to
determine whether it is stable enough to support the proposed project. They also study water
patterns to determine if a particular site is prone to flooding. Some civil engineers use
geologists to examine rocks for important metals, oil, natural gas and ground water. The full
knowledge of geology increase the strength, stability, and durability of civil engineering projects.
REFERENCE(S)
 Wikipedia
 Engineering Geology by Fred G. Bell