(Dr. H.R.G.K. Hack, MIMM, CEng, mAEG)
email: hack@itc.nl
personal web page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hack/WORKHack/index.html
"Sinking Cities" - Three-dimensional settlement determination with groundwater model for urban planning in low lying areas with high groundwater level (Reeuwijk, The Netherlands)
Characterizing (in-) homogeneity of soil and rock
Decay of geotechnical properties of soil and rock masses in engineering times
Earthquake hazard and risk assessment (micro-zonation, numerical two- and three-dimensional modeling of resonance effects in slopes - "crocodile-tale effect" - and irregular sub-surface boundaries, etc)
Digital data in the geosciences (ESF conferences)
Information technology in engineering geology
3-dimensional modeling of bored tunnel in soft soil (Heinenoord tunnel)
Environmental Impact Assessment for tailings dams and leaching plant in Zambia
Rapid Inventory of Earthquake Damage (RIED)
Land Water Environment & Information Technology program (integration of information technology in the civil engineering industry)
Jetty design in Malaysia
Numerical modeling in mine design (European Union project)
Member Organizing Committee and Moderator Scientific Committee 1st European Regional Conference of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (EurEnGeo2004), Liege, Belgium, 4-7 May 2004
Chairman Scientific Committee 1st International Conference of Sustainable Development and Management of the Subsurface (SDMS), Utrecht, Netherlands, 5-7 November 2003
Member Scientific Organising Committee European Sciense Foundation (ESF) Conference "New Paradigms for the Prediction of Subsurface Conditions", Spa, Belgium, 7-12 July, 2001
Past Member of the "Working Group on Societal Applications of the Geosciences (WGSAG)" of the COMMISSION FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION OF GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION" (COGEOINFO) of the INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Past-President of the Ingeokring - Dutch Association for Engineering Geology
Past- National Representative for The Netherlands of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG)
1999 – to date : Likelihood and certainty of geological and geotechnical models of the subsurface. Various PhD (Zhu and partially Ozmutlu) and MSc. studies
1998 – to date : Degradation of geotechnical properties of soil and rock masses due to weathering in engineering times. Various PhD (Huisman) and MSc. Studies.
1998 – to date : Definition of homogeneity and inhomogeneity of soil and rock masses and methods to determine homogeneity by laser or other remote sensing tools Various PhD (Slob) and MSc. Studies
1997 – to date : Earthquake response and influence of shallow geological, geotechnical and topographic irregularities and topsoil inhomogeneity on resonance spectra for civil engineering structures. Numerical modelling and development of empirical relations for earthquake response estimation. Various MSc projects, PhD study proposal pending.
1997 – 2001 : Supervision Ph.D. research of S. Ozmutlu, Ph.D. thesis title: “Intelligent Decision Support Systems for Engineering Geology”; design and development of automated systems for soft soil and rock tunnelling, dredging and excavatability.
1997 : Predicting subsurface conditions for geotechnical modelling / by B. Orlic. - Delft : ITC, 1997. - 192 p. ; 25 cm. - PhD thesis Technical University Delft ; Summaries in Dutch and English. - ISBN 90-6164-140-3 (ITC Publication ; 55) (ITC Dissertation ; 46). ABSTRACT, supervisor: Hack, thesis availability: ITC Library
See MSc research and theses projects