Engineering protection against erosion: types, designers' and builders' experience, software

Abstract: The Research and Educational Center (REC) at the Research Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Channel Processes of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University forms a professional community. The REC was created a year ago. Through online events and professional programs of additional education, its organizers introduce students, graduate students, young scientists and experienced practitioners to each other. Among the audience there are schoolchildren and inquisitive citizens interested in natural sciences. This article will focus on an online meeting on the topic “Engineering methods to fight against erosion”. Svetlana Yausheva, PhD, technical support specialist for the GEO5complex of autonomous programs for geotechnical calculations, told about what traditional and new measures existed for the protection against erosion and what an engineer should do if it is important to know a lot, but there is lack of time.
 

Keywords: soil erosion; engineering protection; professional community; engineering surveys; geotechnical calculations; online events; additional education programs; software.