Learning Outcomes. To provide the tools for the characterization, also with new technologies, and the modelling, also through a distributed hydrologic model of hydrologic processes at watershed and hillslope scales, with in depth reference to soil moisture dynamics, the flood runoff formation for the purpose of assessing the impacts of climate and land use changes.

“Earthquake geotechnical engineering” focuses on the characterization of earthquakes from a geotechnical engineering perspective and on the geotechnical analysis of the effects of earthquakes on soils at both the soil element and territorial scales. The course will provide Students with theoretical knowledge and practical experiences in laboratory and in-situ testing as well as software-based analyses of earthquake geotechnical engineering problems.

The Earth system and its dynamics over time; Llithogenetic processes: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. The rocks over time: basic principles of stratigraphy; The rocks in space: geological structures and reading geological maps.

The course provides fundamentals of water waves mechanics, coastal hydro- and morpho- dynamics and coastal management, introducing design principles of coastal protection structures.

PROGRAM

- Description and observation of ocean waves
- Short-term wave analysis, statistical properties in time and frequency domain

- Principles of wave generation by wind
- Statistical analysis of extreme waves 
- Small amplitude wave theory
- Wave propagation and transformation from deep to shallow waters, wave-structure interaction
- Fundamentals of coastal management
- Coastal circulation
- Sediment transport processes & beach evolution
- Coastal erosion and erosion control