GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING INVESTIGATION OF ROCK SLOPES AT THE EXAMPLE OF THE WEIßERITZTAL RAILWAY BETWEEN HAINSBERG AND SEIFERSDORF IN SAXONIA GERMANY 2006

The following paper describes the cause, course and result of geological engineering investigations of rock slopes. For that the appearances, reasons and trigger of typical rock failures on the one hand and the possibilities of slope stabilization and akin countermeasures, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of them, on the other hand are mentioned. By the geological engineering analysis only kinematic and limit equilibrium analysis are looked at in detail. All that is shown on the basis of an example. This example is the geological investigation of the Weißeritz valley. Reason of this investigation is the reconstruction of the railway, which was destroyed by a high water event. The geological engineering investigation of rock slopes are a very important fact for the stability and because of that for the safety of the population. Especially in the industrial countries with a high population density it is important to know about the rock slope stabilities along roads, railways, construction pits or footpaths, because the density of huma