Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert-B. Wudtke

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Director, Professor, Dean of Studies

+49 3631 420-337
Building 19, Room 19.0119

Department:

Department of Engineering

Study area:

IT, Technology & Engineering

Research areas:

Main research areas
- Solutions for improving the use of recycled building materials,
- Identification of the material properties of recycled building materials,
- Sustainability in earthworks,
- Development of the strength and deformability of soil with increasing pore water pressure and
- Material properties of landfill material and landfill substitute building materials

Institute or organisation:

ThIWert | Thuringian Innovation Centre for Recyclable Materials

Professional career

Education

1996 – 2002

Studied Civil Engineering, Bauhaus University Weimar

Professional stations

since 2014

wudtke geotechnik - INGENIEURBÜRO, Managing Director

2003 – 2016

Bauhaus University Weimar, Chair of Foundation Engineering, Research Assistant

2003 – 2014

Freelance geotechnical engineer

Dissertation

"Hydraulic ground failure in cohesive subsoil"Bauhaus University Weimar, graduated in 2014 as Dr.-Ing.

Publications

Selection

Wudtke, R.-B., Vielhaber, B., Lesny, C. & Nendza, M. (2020): "Intermediate sealing - verification and realisation". 30th Karlsruhe Landfill and Contaminated Sites Seminar 2020 - CLOSURE AND RECULTIVATION OF LANDFILLS AND OLD LOADS - PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW LANDFILLS, Karlsruhe, 14-15 October 2020, 69-8

Graner, T., Wudtke, R.-B.: „StaDiWa^® - Development of an innovative sealing wall method for the production of a weather-resistant excavation pit lining with a static function„, 14th Earthworks Conference "Sustainability in earthworks and hydraulic engineering", Leipzig, 01-02 March 2018, 125-140.

Köditz, J., Wudtke, R.-B., Witt, K. J.: "Comparison of direct and indirect test methods for determining the tensile strength of cohesive soils", geotechnics 4/39 (2016), pp. 225-234 (peer-reviewed)
Wudtke, R.-B., Witt, K. J.: "Hydraulic Heave in Cohesive Soils", Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering, 09/2013, Paris (France), Volume 1, pp. 449-452 (peer-reviewed)

Fields of activity at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

Courses

Introduction to geotechnics (GT)
Buildings I: Building design and construction methods (GT)
Geotechnics I: Exploration and application (GT)
Buildings II: Building materials science (GT)
Geotechnics II: IT tools in geotechnics (GT)
Geotechnics III: Structural engineering fields of work (GT)
Buildings III: Building analysis (GT)
Project module Geotechnics: Project work "Dam and dyke construction" (GT)
Geotechnics IV: Strengthening of engineering structures (GT)
Geotechnics VI: Rock engineering (GT)

Academic activity outside the university

since 2021
Head of Project Group 6 - "Geotechnics" of the PraxisRegeln-Bau e.V. (PRB) initiative; member since 2011
since 2019
Chairman of the working group AK 1.3 "Investigations of soil and rock" of the German Society for Geotechnics (DGGT), corresponds to standards committee NA 005-05-06 AA, collaboration since 2017
since 2017
Member of the working group AK 6.1 "Geotechnics of landfill structures" of the German Society for Geotechnics (DGGT)
since 2016
TC 250 / SC 7: Eurocode 7 - geotechnical design: Member of WG 1 / TG C2 "Ground model"; Member of WG 2 / TG 1 "Reorganisation and simplification"; Chairman of WG 2 / TG 2 "Additional investigation methods"
since 2016
Member of the working group AK 1.5 "Safety in earthworks and foundation engineering" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e.V. (DGGT), corresponds to standards committee NA 005-05-01 AA