Email: marcin.chwala@pwr.edu.pl

Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering » Department of Geotechnology, Hydro Technology, and Underground and Hydro Engineering

OFFICE HOURS MON - 9:00-11:00, room 119 D-2

If you are a student and would like to join scientific work, please contact me!

My current research interests are probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering, modelling the spatial variability of soil, foundation bearing capacity, slope stability analysis.

Recently I have been working on the stability of lunar lava tubes. My first paper on this subject was recently published in Icarus, you can read about the conducted research in a popular sciense article or listen on radio broadcasts [in Polish], Radio 357 in Partonautyka, Radio Rodzina or Radio Wrocław. 

I received my engineering degree and my master's degree from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Wrocław University of Science and Technology in 2012 and 2013, respectively. My doctoral dissertation concerned the application of random field theory and multi-block failure mechanisms for the assessment of the bearing capacity of direct foundations accounting for the spatial variation of soil parameters. After obtaining my PhD in 2018, I have been working on the creation and development of novel methods for the optimal placement of soil soundings for foundation design and new approaches for considering soil spatial variability in foundation bearing capacity and slope stability assessment.  

I am pleased to be a member of Academia Iuvenum (2023-2025) and a member of the Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management Committee (TC304) of the ISSMGE.

You can find more details about my research work in my CV, on my home page and Web of Science or Scopus.

 

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1	Proceeding paper 2022 Marcin Chwała, Wengang Zhang, Multi-block failure mechanism approach with broken lines in bearing capacity estimation of spatially variable soil. W: 8th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR) : geotechnical risk : big-data, machine learning and climate change : 14-16 December 2022, Newcastle, Australia / ed. Jinsong Huang [i in.]. Singapore : Research Publishing, cop. 2022. s. 297-302. ISBN: 978-981-18-5182-7 Resources:URL
2	Article 2022 Marcin Chwała, Kok-Kwang Phoon, Marco Uzielli, Jie Zhang, Limin Zhang, Jianye Ching, Time capsule for geotechnical risk and reliability. Georisk-Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 2022, s. 1-28. ISSN: 1749-9518 Resources:DOIURL
3	Proceeding paper 2022 Daniel Teshager, Marcin Chwała, Wojciech Puła, Shallow foundation settlement using a hardening soil model for spatially variable soil. W: 8th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR) : geotechnical risk : big-data, machine learning and climate change : 14-16 December 2022, Newcastle, Australia / ed. Jinsong Huang [i in.]. Singapore : Research Publishing, cop. 2022. s. 278-284. ISBN: 978-981-18-5182-7 Resources:URL
4	Proceeding paper 2022 Marcin Chwała, Michael Beer, Random failure mechanism method in optimal borehole placement for shallow foundation design under spatially variable conditions. W: ISRERM 2022 : 8th International Symposiumon Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, 4-7 September 2022 Hannover, Germany / ed. by Michael Beer [i in.]. Singapore : Research Publishing, [2022]. s. 447-453. ISBN: 978-981-18-5184-1 Resources:URL
5	Proceeding paper 2022 Daniel Teshager, Marcin Chwała, Wojciech Puła, Probabilistic foundation settlement using a hardening soil model on layered and spatially variable soil. W: ISRERM 2022 : 8th International Symposiumon Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, 4-7 September 2022 Hannover, Germany / ed. by Michael Beer [i in.]. Singapore : Research Publishing, [2022]. s. 454-459. ISBN: 978-981-18-5184-1 Resources:URL
6	Article 2022 Marcin Chwała, Wengang Zhang, Broken line random failure mechanism method in foundation bearing capacity assessment for spatially variable soil. Computers and Geotechnics. 2022, vol. 150, art. 104903, s. 1-14. ISSN: 0266-352X; 1873-7633 Resources:DOIURLSFX
7	Article 2022 Wengang Zhang, Songlin Liu, Luqi Wang, Pijush Samui, Marcin Chwała, Yuwei He, Landslide susceptibility research combining qualitative analysis and quantitative evaluation : a case study of Yunyang County in Chongqing, China. Forests. 2022, vol. 13, nr 7, art. 1055, s. 1-20. ISSN: 1999-4907 Resources:DOIURLSFX
8	Article 2022 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Marcin Chwała, Wojciech Puła, Worst-case effect in bearing capacity of spread foundations considering safety factors and anisotropy in soil spatial variability. Georisk - Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 2022, s. 1-16. ISSN: 1749-9518 Resources:DOIURL
9	Article 2022 Marcin Chwała, An iterative algorithm for random upper bound kinematical analysis. Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica. 2022, vol. 44, nr 1, s. 13-25. ISSN: 0137-6365; 2083-831X Resources:DOIURLSFX
10	Article 2021 Marcin Chwała, Marek Kawa, Random failure mechanism method for assessment of working platform bearing capacity with a linear trend in undrained shear strength. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. 2021, vol. 13, nr 6, s. 1513-1530. ISSN: 1674-7755; 2589-0417 Resources:DOIURLSFX