On November 20, 2025, once again two outstanding diploma theses written at the Research Unit of Ground Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics at the Institute of Geotechnics at TU Wien were awarded the prestigious FSV award at a ceremony at RIVERBOX in Vienna.
Dipl.-Ing. Alina Grün, BSc, was awarded the FSV Prize for her work “Abrasiveness of soil material - Parameter studies using the Wiener Abrasimeter, opens an external URL in a new window.” As part of her work, Ms. Grün conducted extensive and systematic laboratory tests with different soils, thereby creating a valuable basis for the development of a classification scheme for assessing the abrasiveness of loose rock. She also investigated the device- and test-related deviation of the test results as well as the so-called “free impact problem” during the test.
Dipl.-Ing. Lukas Steininger, BSc, received the FSV Recognition Award for his work “Application of the “load-transfer analysis” approach for energy piles of the research project Unteres Hausfeld., opens an external URL in a new window” He expanded the Load Transfer Analysis approach for the thermo-mechanical loading of energy piles and compared the simulation results with the measurement data from two test energy piles. The work thus forms a valuable basis for assessing the load-bearing behavior of energy piles under thermo-mechanical stress.
The Road - Rail - Transport Research Association (FSV) is a central platform for transport experts to promote technical innovations in the transport sector. It develops and updates technical standards that are used in the construction, operation and maintenance of roads, bridges, tunnels and railroad lines. Together with the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Mobility, and Infrastructure (BMIMI), the FSV Prize supports young scientists in the field of transportation. The aim of this event is to promote young people – on the one hand by giving them the opportunity to present their research results to a broad public and an expert audience from the transportation sector, and on the other hand by awarding the prize.
The decision on which of the submitted works will be awarded is made on the basis of expert evaluation by around 50 external experts. The award ceremony took place on November 20, 2025.
The awards underline the high quality of the research carried out at the Institute of Geotechnics at TU Wien. The Institute of Geotechnics congratulates Dipl.-Ing. Alina Grün, BSc, and Dipl.-Ing. Lukas Steininger, BSc, on this outstanding achievement!