Student projects

Field Work

02/2018	Sampling campaign, Altenwalde, Germany Coring of XL-Monopiles for surface roughness and shear strength measurements of surface-sand interfaces
02/2016	Sampling campaign, Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand Sampling at the Bramley Drive landslide for cyclic triaxial testing
12/2015	Geophysical survey, Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand Sub-seafloor investigation of the Bramley Drive landslide using multibeam echosounder, side scan sonar, and shallow water seismic
07/2014 - 08/2014	Poseidon expedition POS472, Norway Geotechnical in situ investigation of slope stability offshore Norway

Johann Hollop	M.Sc. Project	2018	Germany
Bernd Oefner	B.Sc. Thesis	2017	Germany	kf-Sensitivität: Ein neuer Parameter zur Quantifizierung des Durchlässigkeitsverlustes nach dem Versagen verwitterter Tephra, Tauranga Harbour - Neuseeland
Lennart Siemann	M.Sc. Thesis	2017	Germany	Pore pressure fluctuations as trigger of landslides - Investigations by means of a numerical model for the formation of the Bramley Drive (Omokoroa, NZ) landslide
Alexander Busch	M.Sc. Project	2017	Germany	Konzipierung und Entwicklung einer Testzelle zur Ermittlung des Verflüssigungspotentials von vulkanischen Ablagerungen
Maximilian Müller	B.Sc. Thesis	2016	Germany	Ödometermessungen zur Bestimmung der Permeabilität von verwitterten vulkanischen Aschelagen und deren Einfluss auf die Hangrutschung am Bramley Drive, Omokoroa - NZ
Philippa Mills	M.Sc. Thesis	2016	New Zealand	Failure mechanisms in sensitive volcanic soils in the Tauranga Region, New Zealand
David Seibel	B.Sc. Thesis	2015	Germany	Einfluss der Halloysit-Morphologie auf die undrainierte Scherfestigkeit der Pahoia Tephra Neuseelands - Ein Vergleich von REM-Aufnahmen und Flügelsondenversuchen
Bastian Steinborn	M.Sc. Thesis	2015	Germany	Multidisciplinary soil characterization of a coastal Omokoroa peninsula, NZ slope sequence, prone to slope failure, using correlations of in-situ and laboratory data

Maximilian Müller	10 - 11 / 2016	Investigation of the coefficient of permeability along core Omok-1 using oedmoetric compression tests
Connor Schulze	01 - 06 / 2015	Measurement of undrained shear strength along core Omok-1 obtained near the Bramley Drive landslide, New Zealand
Niroshan Gajendra	12 / 2014	Measurement of undrained shear strength along core Omok-1 obtained near the Bramley Drive landslide, New Zealand
David Seibel	08 - 10 / 2014	Investigation of geotechnical properties of gravity core GeoB-18623-1 for slope stability assessment in Orkdalsfjord, Norway