Institute of Geonics AS CR, v. v. i.

Documenta Geonica 1 / 2000

Contents

Characteristics of the Institute of Geonics of the Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic
Main research projects
- Project No. K 1012601: Evaluation of the physical reaction of rock intervention
  - Research of characteristics of rock materials and their behaviour in interactive process
  - Research of reinforcement interactive processes in rock mass
  - Seismic research of rock mass and observatory activities
  - Tools for large scale mathematical modelling in geomechanics
  - Structure and development of regions in view of life environment
- Project No. K 1042603: Pollutants in the process of rock disintegration
  - Collection of aerosols and slurries in processes of rock disintegration by high-speed water jets
  - Determination of the fibrogeneity of respirable particles in the abrasive material
  - Sorption processes with ion exchange on clay minerals
- Project No. K 2017602: Regional evaluation of environment in the conditions of transformation
  - Transformation of the South Moravian border region
  - The city of Brno – its position within large territorial units
  - Geography of small Moravian towns
  - Transformation of the Ostrava region and its consequences
The most Important Commercial Contract
- Mathematical modelling of stress and stability conditions in selected parts of spoil bank of Kateřina colliery
- Research of prediction of rock bursts causes of their development and methods
Department of Earth Materials Science
- Laboratory of petrology and physical properties of rocks
  - Laboratory of the petrology
  - Laboratory of mechanical rock properties
    - Measurement of gas permeability in triaxial state of stress during the process of
    - New method of testing tensile strength of rocks
    - Tectono-magmatic position of the permo-carboniferous volcanism in Bohemian Massif its development within the Variscan orogen
    - Study of growth and transformation different forms of ferric oxide during the thermal decompositions of salts and minerals
    - Influence of underground mining damp-down on processes in lithosphere and environment
    - Coal clasts in carboniferous sediments sediments of the Upper Silesian Coal basin
    - Evaluation of development of rock failure process by application of acoustic methods
- Laboratory of rock disintegration
  - Forced modulation of water jet by ultrasonic
  - Hydrodynamic generator of pulsed jets
  - Research of critical state of cutting tools for coal-getting machines
  - Abrasive water jet cutting, a clean technology
  - Water jet assisted rock and coal disintegration
  - Clean coal technology
  - Alternative fuel development
- Laboratory of environmetal chemistry
  - Quality of coal combustion in small boilers
  - Study of N2O formation in mobile and stationary equipments
Department of geomechanics
- Study of construction technology of underground central storage of burnt-out nuclear fuel
- Prediction of subsidence of surface ground affected by exploitation of gangue ore deposits of tabular type within complex of solid metamorphosed rocks
- Observation of impact of non-breaking blasting work on rock massif
- Research of geocomposites with grouted discontinuities
- Rock bursts in the Czech part of the Upper Silesian Coal basin – analysis of the geomechanical and mining factors of their origin and manifestation
- Stabilisation of the rock mass in coal mines by means of synthetic resins
- Tectonic faults vicinity impact to primary stress character changes in the Carboniferous massif in the Upper Silesian Basin Czech part
Department of applied mathematics
- High performance computing in geosciences, safety of constructions with respect to rock deformations and ovements
- High performance computing in geosciences, a support for the EC project COPERNICUS COP 940820
- High performance computing in geosciences II
- High performance computing in geosciences II, a support for the EC project COPERNICUS KIT COP 977006
- Supercomputing and shape optimization in geomechanics
- Mathematical modelling of optimal designs of bolt reinforcement
- Realization of fast data interconnections at the Institute of Geonics, AS CR Ostrava
- Development of the metropolitan supercomputing centre in Ostrava – support for the research in the area of parallel algorithmus
Department of Geophysics and Special Measurement Methods
- Velocity distribution in the Bohemian Massif and fast localization of regional eartquakes from broadband seismological observations
- Wavelet – analysis and interpretation of the geophysical data
- Mobility of tectonic zones in the northern part of the Moravian-Silesian region and their earthquake activity
Department of Environmental Geography, Brno
- Floods, landscape and people in the Morava River catchment area
- Cooperative Networks among Medium Sized Cities in Central and South-Eastern Europe
- New prosperity of rural regions
- Geomorphological development of the relief in the Podyjí National Park and surroundings within the South-East margin of the Bohemian Massif
- Evaluation of old waste dumps in the Brno-East area and their identification using large-scale aerial photographs