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  Home > Our People > Thomas Baumgartl

Dr. Thomas Baumgartl
Position Lecturer
Field Hydrogeology
E-mail t.baumgartl@uq.edu.au
Phone/Fax (P) +61 7 3365 2924
(F) +61 7 3365 3452
Scientific Interests
  • Hydrology of porous media
  • Mechanics of porous media
  • Rehabilitation of mined sites
  • Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-interaction
  • Geo-Ecology of landscapes
 
Current/ Past Research

 

  • Stresses and stress distribution in aggregates and bulk soils
  • Mechanical and hydrological processes in cappings of landfills
  • Mechanical stability of soils (experimental determination; modelling)
  • Tensile stresses, crack formation and shrinkage of porous media
  • CO2 - sources and sinks in soils
  • Gas-/ CO2 -flow in compacted porous media
  • Hydrophobicity of porous systems and effect on water / element fluxes
 
Recent/Key Publications

Baumgartl T, Horn R (1991) Effect of aggregte stability on soil compaction. Soil and Tillage 19:203-213

Beckmann T, Baumgartl T (1993) Micromorphological investigations of sheared aggregates. Soil Technology 6:107-114

Baumgartl T (1998) Physical soil properties in specific fields of application especially in anthropogenic soils. Soil and Tillage 47:51-59

Baumgartl T (2002a) Prediction of tensile stresses and volume change with hydraulic models. In: Pagliai M, Jones R (eds) Sustainable Land Management - Environmental Protection - a Soil Physical Approach. Catena, Reiskirchen, pp 507-514

Baumgartl T (2002b) Soil physical properties: Atterberg Limits. In: R. Lal TOSU (ed) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp 89-93

Baumgartl T (2003) Koppelung von mechanischen und hydraulischen Bodenzustandsfunktionen zur Bestimmung und Modellierung von Zugspannungen und Volumenänderungen in porösen Medien. In: Inst. f. Pflanzenern. u. Bodenk. Universität Kiel, Kiel, p 131

Baumgartl T, Horn R (1999) Influence of mechanical and hydraulic stresses on hydraulic properties of swelling soils. In: vanGenuchten MT, Leij FJ (eds) Characterization and measurement of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media, vol. 1. University of California, Riverside, California, pp 449-458

Baumgartl T, Horn R (2001) Tensile stress as an example for the interaction of hydraulic and mechanical processes. Suelo y Nutricion Vegetal 1:48-53

Baumgartl T, Kirsch B, Short M (1998) Soil physical processes in sealing systems of waste dumps affecting the environment. In: Blume H-P, Eger H, Fleischhauer E, Hebel A, Reij C, Steiner KG (eds) Towards Sustainable Land Use, 31 edn. Catena-Verlag, Reiskirchen, pp 797-803

Baumgartl T, Köck B (2004) Modelling Volume Change and Mechanical Properties with Hydraulic Models. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 68

Baumgartl T, Rostek J, Horn R (2000) Internal and external stresses affecting the water retention curve. In: Horn R, van den Akker JJH, Arvidsson J (eds) Subsoil compaction. Distribution, Processes, consequences, 32 edn. Catena Verlag, Reiskirchen, pp 3-12

Bublitz J, Knaack,A., Dickenhausen,M., Grätz,M., Schade,W., Baumgartl,T., Horn,R. (1994) Fiber Optic lif-sensors for the trace analysis in water and in the soil. Advances in Remote Sensing

Gräsle W Horn,R., Baumgartl,T., Kühner,S., Raper,R., Way,T., Bailey,A., Johnson,C.et al. (1994) Three dimensional stress strain distribution in structured unsaturated soils under wheeling.- theory and measurements. In, pp 43-45

Gräsle W, Richards BG, Baumgartl T, Horn R (1995) Interaction between soil mechanical properties of structured soils and hydraulic processes- theoretical fundamentals of a model. In. Balkema, Rotterdam/Brookfield, pp 719-725

Hallett PD, Baumgartl T, Young IM (2001) Subcritical water repellency of aggregates from a range of soil management practises. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 65:184-190

Horn R, Baumgartl  T (1999) Dynamic Properties of Soils. A19 - 52. In: Sumner (ed) Handbook of Soil Science. CRC press, p 2000

Horn R, Baumgartl T (2002) Dynamic properties of soils. In: Warrick AW (ed) Soil Physics Companion. CRC, Boca Raton, p 389

Horn R, Richards BG, Gräsle W, Baumgartl T, Wiermann C (1998) Theoretical principals for modelling soil strength and wheeling effects - a review. Z.Pfl.ern.u.Bodke. 161:333-346

Knaack A, Schade W, Horn R, Baumgartl T (1993) A Fiber Optic LIF Sensor for Measuring Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Tracers in the Ground. In. Springer Berlin, München

Richards BG, Horn R, Baumgartl T, Gräsle W (1995) The role of stress on the behaviour of unsaturated soils. In: Alonso EE, Delage P (eds) Unsaturated Soils. Balkema, Rotterdam/Brookfield, pp 785-791

Richards BG, Baumgartl T, Horn R (2000) Modelling coupled processes in structured unsaturated soils - Theory and examples. In: Horn R, van den Akker JJH, Arvidsson J (eds) Subsoil compaction. Distribution, Processes, consequences, 32 edn. Catena Verlag, Reiskirchen, pp 175-190

Richards BG, Baumgartl T, Horn R, Gräsle W (1997) Modelling the effects of repeated wheel loads on soil profiles. Int. Agrophysics 11:177-187

Zhang B, Zhao QG, Horn R, Baumgartl T (2001) Shear strength of surface soil as affected by soil bulk density and soil water content. Soil & Till. Res. 59:97-106

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