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The article is devoted to the difficulties encountered during construction due to difficult engineering-geological conditions in the territory of the Nizhnekamsk industrial hub, where the eluvial sandstones of the Urzhumian Stage are widely developed. Their structure and properties that distinguish them from ordinary sands and cause unpredictable behavior of the ground bases are analyzed. Lots of data from cone penetration tests, pile static load tests, and laboratory studies were collected and analyzed. Correlation dependencies between the physical-mechanical characteristics of the considered eluvial sandstones and the specific frontal resistance were established. Based on the systematization and analysis of field studies, regional dependencies between the parameters of cone penetration test and the strength and deformation characteristics of soils are constructed. The results are of great practical importance and make it possible to optimize the design and construction of infrastructure in a given area.
One of the most important areas of substantiating and ensuring the safety of buildings and structures is the risk assessment of originating geological processes. For more reliable assessments when solving problems of Engineering Geology, calculating not only the deterministic component of some engineering-geological process (as it has been often done so far), but also its random component is necessary. No risk analysis or design on the basis of the reliability theory can be performed without probabilistic analysis with the use of only the stability coefficient. Therefore, further development of probabilistic approaches to the calculations is required. The presented article demonstrates the efficiency and necessity of stochastic analysis by the example of slope stability calculation.
We present a slightly abridged and adapted translation of the paper “Three-dimensional geological modeling of the shallow subsurface and its application: a case study in Tongzhou District, Beijing, China” written by Chinese specialists (
We present an adapted translation of the paper “Engineering geological 3D modeling and geotechnical characterization in the framework of technical rules for geotechnical design: the case study of the Nola’s logistic plant (Southern Italy)” by Italian specialists (Petrone et al., 2023). It was published in 2023 in the peer-reviewed journal “Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment” by the Springer Science+Business Media publishing company. It is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license that allows it to be distributed, translated, adapted, and supplemented, provided that the types of changes are noted, the original source and the license are referred to. In our case, the full reference to the original paper (Petrone et al., 2023) used for the presented translation and to the open access license are given in the end.
The new version of the “Regulations on cultural heritage site protection zones”, which came into force on the 1st of March in this year, established new rules for surveys, construction and economic activities near cultural monuments. Now, there are not only more prohibitions, but also more freedoms, not only specific things, but also unclear ones.
Drilling deadlines missed, budget overruns, insufficiently qualified personnel and lack of transparency of business units’ profits are the main threats to the design and survey business, which can turn a successful organization into a bankrupt with a negative reputation. In addition, it is obvious to most managers that, in recent years, the profitability of design and survey work has sometimes been measured by first percents of turnover. Because of this, the cost of a mistake leading to the fact that the customer will not accept and pay for the work is very high. And here, special ERP systems come to the rescue. They are comprehensive programs for managing all business processes in a company, which enable you to count money and optimize costs. For the design and survey field, these systems include, for example, the WebGeo ERP software package, which can become an auxiliary tool for both top managers and ordinary employees. It is this software that has been used for several years by TPR LLC that had the turnover of 3.3 billion rubles in 2024. We talked to Fedor Zepalov, the first deputy general director of this company, about how this helps in the work.
The paper is devoted to the problem of reliability of laboratory soil tests during engineering-geological surveys. The author analyzes the scale of falsifications (up to 80% of “drawn” reports), identifies the critical stages of the process from sampling to issuing laboratory test results, and proposes five practical tools for quality control of the results.
The article considers the currently existing approaches to identifying the components of eco-geological conditions. Based on the doctrine of the ecological functions of the lithosphere, the characteristics of the eco-resource, eco-geodynamic, eco-geochemical, and eco-geophysical conditions of the Russian section of the Skovorodino-Mohe main oil pipeline are given. The presented approaches to the characteristics of the eco-geological conditions can be in demand both in engineering and environmental surveys and in assessing the impact on environmental components when solving similar problems in Russia and in the People's Republic of China.
The article analyzes the structure and characteristic features of industrial ecological-geological systems (EGS) existing in Belarus. It is shown that the considered EGS are anthropogenic ecological-geological systems that are widespread in the republic and play an important role in the ecosystems there. Each of those EGS has its own specific structure reflecting the influence of various technogenic factors on its abiotic (the lithotope, hydrotope, edaphotope) and biotic (the microbocenosis, phytocenosis, zoocenosis, society) components. All the components of those industrial EGS (both abiotic and biotic ones) have their own sets of special characteristics caused by the influence of human industrial-economic activity, by the technogenic transformation of the corresponding components of natural ecosystems, and by the creation of new artificial ecological-geological systems, that should be taken into account when systematizing EGS, describing and analyzing the ecological functions of the lithosphere. The characteristic features of different types of industrial EGS (production and warehouse ones as the most widespread in the republic) are described. The identified patterns and features can be considered as common for industrial EGS in Belarus and similar EGS in Russia. They should be taken into account when performing geo-environmental studies and site investigations.
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