Subsoil Improvement

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Schmitt, born in 1970, studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig and obtained his doctorate in tunneling. Prof. Schmitt gained many years of practical experience in various engineering companies in the fields of geotechnics, tunneling, and infrastructure planning. Since 2013, he has represented the research and teaching areas of geotechnics and tunneling at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and has published numerous scientific papers and textbooks.

• 1 Basics.- 2 Soil Exchange.- 3 Improvement Through Compaction.- 4 Improvement Through Consolidation.- 5 Injections.- 6 Ground Freezing.- 7 Comparison of Procedures.- 8 Standards and Recommendations.- References.