Rock mass classification
Participants attending the course will gain both an appreciation for and working knowledge of, various rock mass classification systems and the application of the main systems in research and industry. It will provide examples of good practice in various rock engineering situations and will also provide the limitations of these systems and some examples of common misuse.
Participants will be given the opportunity to apply what they learn in a series of exercises to gain experience in classifying rock masses from a range of information sources including borehole logs and outcrop photos. Example applications will cover rock slope stability and tunnelling situations.
Dr Vassilis P. Marinos President of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) Assistant Professor of Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics, Geotechnical Department, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dr Vassilis Marinos is the 2023 – 2026 is President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG). He is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Division, while he had been in the past an Associate Professor of Engineering Geology at the School of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010-2020).
He has published more than 100 papers in international journals, book chapters and international conferences. His research interests are in the field of the geotechnical classification and behaviour of weak and complex rock masses in tunnelling, landslide hazard and risk analysis, natural gas pipelines, construction of geotechnical database for tunnels and urban environments, rock slope stability and evaluation and analysis of ground movement in mines. His professional experience involves consulting services for numerous highway projects, tunnelling, rockfall and landslide analysis, geohazards correlated to natural gas pipelines but also engineering geological work in the field such as mapping, geo-engineering models, geotechnical classification, geotechnical evaluation of ground investigation programs, geo-data processing, design of engineering structures in rock.
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