Scientific work from grade 11 - visiting students at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering

How do you introduce students to scientific work already in the upper secondary school? Since the beginning of October, the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering has been assisting Christoph Berthold, a student at the Martin-Anderson-Nexö-Gymnasium in Dresden, in writing his annual scientific paper, which is mandatory for students at the school with a mathematics and science profile. The topic of the work is: Settlement calculation under a flat foundation. Settlement calculations under structures or earthworks are among the essential tasks in geotechnics. Wilhelm Steinbrenner developed a method for this purpose as early as 1934, which is still used today. Like a true geotechnical engineer, Mr. Berthold will deal with the determination of settlements under a multi-story residential building as part of his annual scientific thesis. He will be supervised by Dr.-Ing. Kornelia Nitzsche. Of particular importance are the laboratory tests carried out on the institute's premises, which are used to determine the relevant soil parameters for the calculations.